WASHINGTON: Nasa’s Perseverance rover has for the first time captured the low-pitched whirring of the Ingenuity helicopter’s blades as it flies through the rarefied Martian atmosphere.
The space agency on Friday released new footage shot by the six-wheeled robot of its rotorcraft companion making its fourth flight on April 30 this time accompanied by an audio track.
The nearly three-minute-long video begins with the low rumble of the wind blowing across the Jezero Crater, where Perseverance landed in February on a mission to search for signs of ancient microbial life.
Ingenuity takes off, and its blades can be heard humming softly as they spin at nearly 2,400 rpm on the 872-foot roundtrip.
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter viewed by one of the hazard cameras on Perseverance rover on APril 30
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NASA s Perseverance rover has for the first time captured the low-pitched whirring of the Ingenuity helicopter s blades as it flies through the rarefied Martian atmosphere.
The space agency on Friday released new footage shot by the six-wheeled robot of its rotorcraft companion making its fourth flight on April 30 this time accompanied by an audio track.
The nearly three-minute-long video begins with the low rumble of wind blowing across the Jezero Crater, where Perseverance landed in February on a mission to search for signs of ancient microbes.
NASA Mars Rover Perseverance Captures Audio, Video of Ingenuity Helicopter Flight: Watch It Here
The nearly three-minute-long video begins with the low rumble of wind blowing across the Jezero Crater, where Perseverance landed in February. By Agence France-Presse | Updated: 8 May 2021 10:07 IST
Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured after landing on May 7
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Perseverance landed in the Jezero Crater
Martian atmosphere is about one percent the density of Earth
NASA s Perseverance rover has for the first time captured the low-pitched whirring of the Ingenuity helicopter s blades as it flies through the rarefied Martian atmosphere.
The space agency on Friday released new footage shot by the six-wheeled robot of its rotorcraft companion making its fourth flight on April 30 this time accompanied by an audio track.
In fact, NASA has massaged the audio sample above to help listeners hear Ingenuity. Sounds below 80Hz and above 90Hz have been turned down in volume so that the 84Hz hum of the tiny computer-controlled craft s rotors can be heard.
A small team at mission control has been experimenting with Ingenuity’s limits for about a month. Over that time, the small autonomous aircraft has performed a series of flights at increasing heights and speeds. The flight data is uploaded to Perseverance and sent back to Earth for the team to study, and the video above is taken from Ingenuity’s fourth flight when it traveled 133 metres south and stayed in the air 117 seconds.
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May 8, 2021 by archyde
What a long way the rover has traveled Perseverance and his companion in space conquest, the drone Ingenuity ! NASA broadcast on his Twitter account, Friday May 7, new images taken by the six-wheeled robot of Ingenuity’s flight on April 30, but this time accompanied by sound, a historic first.
The nearly three-minute video begins with the wind blowing over the Jezero crater, where Perseverance landed on February 18 with the mission of looking for traces of ancient life. Ingenuity then takes off for its fourth flight on the Red Planet, and we hear the thud of its blades which turn at nearly 2,400 revolutions per minute for a round trip of 260 meters in total.