Our little Martian helicopter, Ingenuity, has way exceeded its mission parameters. However, it is now facing a threat we can only mitigate so much.
Winter.
Winter on Mars gets pretty dark and cold, and this means Ingenuity can't charge its panels. It's already gone into emergency shutdown mode once, and the worry is that it will shut down and freeze solid.
But the little guy has already done far more than we expected, so I suppose we can live with it.
It has proved the concept of powered flight in such a thin atmosphere. And then some.
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