TIL the Ingenuity - the little martian helicopter that could, parked for good after a hard landing and no longer able to communicate with the Perseverance rover that's rolled over the horizon - got one last software update patch saying, "once a day, wake up, take one picture, measure everything you can and go back to sleep."
It can't send that information anywhere, but it might run like that gathering data in place for 20 years.
At some point we'll need go to get it.
https://www.space.com/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-team-says-goodbye
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