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NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover
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Hopefully not...
We did get roughly 190 NavCam images from flight 70 via the rover in the day or so leading up to flight 72. So we know that there were good comms between the two craft in the days before 72 flight. If it landed somewhere other than it took off from there could be comms issues. In past flights they have lost contact during landing. So they may be able to quickly re-establish comms. However JPL have not published the raw data to show exactly where flight 71 landed. Flight 71 appears to have been a very hard landing, all we know it was an emergency landing. But there is strong evidence in the post flight images that the ground under the helicopter had been contacted by parts of the helicopter. (see previous posts here)