comparemela.com

Latest Breaking News On - Bob balaram - Page 10 : comparemela.com

Ingenuity helicopter makes its first one-way flight on Mars

Ingenuity helicopter makes its first one-way flight on Mars After the first return flights, now it s time to start exploring Mars! Reset It came, it saw, it conquered after four successful return flights, Ingenuity (the first man-made machine to take flight on another planet) is now embarking on a new adventure: flying from place to place, accompanying the Perseverance rover, and studying Mars from above. Ingenuity flying, as seen by Perseverance. Image credits: NASA / JPL. There’s a drone on Mars Ingenuity was meant to be just a proof of concept, a stepping stone for future missions. But it already is more than just that.

Watch The Mars Helicopter Completing Its First Daring One-Way Trip

NASA’s Ingenuity now really means business. Its fifth scheduled flight was due to be its last, a one-way trip to a final resting place. But the little helicopter has worked so well that NASA has promoted Ingenuity to the operational partner of Perseverance, and will assist the rover for as long as it can. During flight four, Ingenuity collected lots of images and was able to map the area if flew over. This allowed the team to pick a new airfield for the rotocraft. On flight five, Ingenuity flew 129 meters (423 feet) south from the Wright Brothers Airfield, its base of operation for the last month. It took 108 seconds to get to the new location and before landing, it flew to an altitude of 10 meters (33 feet) to capture more images of the area. This is a new altitude record for the vehicle, and a game-changer and in how we can view inaccessible parts of the Red Planet from the sky.  

First in Flight: NASA Just Proved Flying on Mars Is Possible--Next Up Is the Solar System

Print NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured this image of its shadow during the rotorcraft’s second experimental test flight on April 22, 2021. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Advertisement Picture the scene: A small drone the size of a suitcase descends into a dark Martian crevasse perhaps a lava tube that was formed billions of years ago by volcanic activity on the Red Planet. The drone illuminates its surroundings, recording views never seen before by human eyes as its suite of instruments seeks out signs of past or present alien biology. Finally, its reconnaissance complete, the drone flies back to a landing zone on the surface to transmit invaluable data back to Earth. After soaking up the Martian sunlight to recharge its batteries, it continues its explorations of terrain inaccessible to any other machine.

© 2025 Vimarsana

vimarsana © 2020. All Rights Reserved.