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NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter survives a blackout on Mars
NASA has reestablished contact with its Ingenuity helicopter on Mars.
The team’s chief engineer, Travis Brown, explained that radio contact was lost for six Martian sols — just under six days and six hours — after Ingenuity’s 49th flight.
According to the expert, disconnection was not initially a serious problem. The helicopter switched into and out of night survival mode, which made it difficult to contact daily from the 685th sol and communication interruption for a day or two did not bother the team. However, after the Perseverance rover went to a more favorable place for communication, the Ingenuity helicopter could not be found, which already worried the mission team.
Brown emphasized:
In more than 700 sols of helicopter operation on Mars, we have never experienced a complete radio outage. Even in the worst conditions, we have always seen signs of activity.
However, with the advent of sol 761 and the next day, the team received a response from the helicopter, and then “disappeared from the line” again. The mission team realized that the problems were due to the ridge separating the rover and helicopter, and Perseverance moved to the next location to fix them.
However, for the safety of the rover’s movements through the narrow channels of the dry river delta in Lake Crater, it is imperative that Ingenuity fly ahead and conduct checks. The team from Earth was able to upload the flight plan to Ingenuity. Brown said:
It would be an understatement to say that the helicopter crew was relieved to see the successful telemetry of the 763 Martian day link flight the next morning.
Tablets
The flagship tablet Huawei MatePad Pro 13.2 appeared on Geekbench. Hardware platform – same as Mate 60 Pro
The Huawei MatePad Pro 13.2 tablet computer appeared in the Geekbench benchmark database ahead of its official premiere tomorrow. The device runs AOSP 12, which is how HarmonyOS 4.0 is defined.
The RAM capacity is 12 GB; the hardware platform is Kirin 9000s. That is, in terms of hardware platform components, the tablet is unified with Huawei Mate 60 Pro.
According to preliminary data, Huawei MatePad Pro 13.2 will receive five versions, and the version with 12 GB of RAM and 256 GB of flash memory is the basic one. At the top of the range will be the 16 GB/1 TB version with a built-in LTE modem, as well as a stylus and keyboard included.
Hyundai cannot be stopped: the company releases new products one after another. The next one should be the updated Tucson crossover. The car is already being tested on public roads in Europe.
The car is tightly wrapped in camouflage – the company does not want to “shine” innovations in the exterior ahead of time. However, we can say that both the front and rear parts will change. At the front, there will likely be new headlights and a new grille design. There may also be some innovations in the design of the front panel. Interestingly, they are testing the Tucson with a trailer, and quite a heavy one, judging by the number of axles.
It is difficult to say whether there will be any innovations in terms of units. Most likely, if any changes occur, they will be minor ones – like new engine control firmware. The current Tuscon is offered with both internal combustion engines and hybrid versions – conventional and plug-in hybrid. All these options will remain in the updated car.
Phones
The most autonomous of the iPhone 15 line was not the 15 Pro Max. The test showed that the new models are very good
Popular blogger Mrwhosetheboss with 16.4 million subscribers on YouTube decided to compare the autonomy of the new iPhones with previous generations.
The new line was presented in its entirety in the test, and from the old ones the iPhone 14 Pro Max, iPhone 14 and iPhone 13 Pro Max were taken.
At the initial stage, the iPhone 15 Pro Max and iPhone 13 Pro Max took the lead, while the iPhone 15 Pro immediately became an outsider. The iPhone 15 Plus also performed well, lagging behind the leaders quite a bit.
Further, during the testing process, the worst model did not change, but the iPhone 15 Pro Max began to overtake its “grandfather”. At the same time, at what point did the leader change altogether – it unexpectedly became the iPhone 15 Plus.
When the iPhone 15 Plus reached the 50% charge mark, the iPhone 15 Pro Max had 44%, the iPhone 13 Pro Max remained at 41%, and the iPhone 15 Pro only retained 24%, that is, half the leader. At the same time, the outsider also changed – it became the iPhone 14 with 22%.
As a result, it was the iPhone 14 that was eliminated first with a result of 9 hours of screen operation. The iPhone 15 Pro was marginally better: 9 hours and 20 minutes. The iPhone 15 was the third to drop out, but it lasted almost 10 hours. The iPhone 14 Pro Max lasted another hour longer.
iPhone 13 Pro Max closed the top three with a result of 11 hours and 19 minutes, in second place was the iPhone 15 Pro Max with a result of 11 hours and 41 minutes, but the leader in the end was still the iPhone 15 Plus, which worked for an incredible 13 hours and 19 minutes.
Thus, the new generation as a whole has shown itself to be better in terms of autonomy than the previous one, and the result of the iPhone 15 Plus is absolutely amazing.
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