NASA's Ingenuity helicopter successfully completed its seventh flight on Mars. The space helicopter landed in a new airfield that had only been imaged by a Mars-orbiting spacecraft.
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The Ingenuity Mars helicopter safely flew to a new location after four historical trips. The 4-pound chopper took a one-way trip to its new airfield on Friday.
Ingenuity took off from Wright Brothers Field, much like previous flights, except it s not coming back.
Space.com said the flight took off at 3:26 p.m. ET, or 12:33 p.m. local Mars time. Around 7:31 p.m. ET, Ingenuity shared the data back to NASA s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
(Photo: Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Ingenuity rose 16 feet (5 meters) into the air and soared 423 feet (129 meters) south this time. This retraces the route the helicopter took while scouting for the next spot on its fourth flight.
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