NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter scheduled to make first flight on Mars
The helicopter traveled to Mars attached to the bottom of the Perseverance rover, which landed on the red planet in February. Author: Mitch Carr (12News) Updated: 4:30 PM MST April 9, 2021
PHOENIX Sunday marks a huge day in the history of space exploration and in the history of human flight, which began with the Wright Brothers in 1903.
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter is scheduled to make its first flight on Mars, making it the first powered flight on another planet.
The helicopter traveled to Mars attached to the bottom of the Perseverance rover, which landed on the red planet in February.
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A Black science fiction author who believed she could write better stories than those in B-grade movies, and a former NASA senior director who gazed at the stars while growing up in a remote part of Africa have been honored with Mars Perseverance sites named after them.
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Jakob van Zyl, a brilliant engineer and manager who helped send spacecraft across the solar system, are now part of the Perseverance rover’s mission. Their names now designate where the rover landed and where it will watch the Ingenuity helicopter fly. There s a tradition for Mars rover teams to name their landing sites after someone they want to commemorate, says Kathryn Stack Morgan, deputy project scientist of the Mars 2020 rover mission.
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Reddit users have speculated that it could be a “dustbow,” with the reflections being caused by dust rather than water droplets.
Further speculation on the site has come from a 2015 “Ask Me Anything” with NASA team members in which NASA Mars Program Office Chief Scientist Rich Zurek said it was possible that “icebows” could appear on Mars, because while there are no water droplets, snow has been observed at the Poles.
However, the most supported theory appears to be that the “rainbow” was caused by an artifact causing random rays of light entering and randomly dispersing inside the lens, similar to a “lens flare” in your typical camera.
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