NASA is about to land its first helicopter Ingenuity on Mars
The small Ingenuity helicopter will have several challenges to overcome - the biggest being the rarefied Martian atmosphere. Image Source: NASA
Updated: Feb 16, 2021, 01:30 PM IST
US space organisation NASA is about to land a helicopter on the planet Mars on Thursday for the first time.
The small Ingenuity helicopter will have several challenges to overcome - the biggest being the rarefied Martian atmosphere, which is just one per cent the density of Earth s. It might be called a helicopter, but in appearance, it s closer to a mini-drone that weighs nearly 1.8 kilograms.