#2444: Ingenuity
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[Ingenuity/Perseverance is on the surface of Mars.]
Perseverance: Ingenuity helicopter has been lowered.
Perseverance: Preparing to release it onto the surface.
[A cut to mission control on Earth. Cueball trips and clicks on a key on his workstation, while Ponytail stands nearby.]
Cueball: Oops
Control panel: Click
Trip
[Back on Mars, Ingenuity's rotor blades start spinning.]
Ingenuity: Bzzzzzz
[Perseverance is being lifted into the air atop Ingenuity.]
Perseverance: Wheeee!
Ingenuity: Bzzzzzz
(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)
Title text:Plot twist: Thanks to [mumble mumble] second-order [mumble] Rayleigh-Taylor [mumble] turbulent [mumble] shear, it turns out powered flight is way EASIER on Mars!