Ingenuity helicopter makes first controlled horizontal flight on Mars
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS
NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS
NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS
NASA s Ingenuity Mars helicopter made history again today by flying horizontally for the first time. At 5:33 am EDT, the tissue-box-sized rotorcraft lifted off from what s been dubbed Wright Brother s Field on the Red Planet and flew for 51.9 seconds before descending safely to the ground.
Today s flight comes on the heels of Ingenuity s first flight that took place on April 19, as the little helicopter began its 30-day test program. As with the first, the second flight was carried out autonomously due to the minutes-long delay for signals to travel to and from Earth. During the flight, the Perseverance rover relayed telemetry data back to Mission Control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California, and recorded video for later transmission.
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