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NASA s Ingenuity helicopter has completed its seventh flight on Mars Jun 09, 2021, 07:04 AM
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The space helicopter landed in a new airfield that had only been imaged by a Mars-orbiting spacecraft.
Ingenuity is on an extended mission to help NASA practice for future Mars helicopters.
NASA s Ingenuity helicopter has defied expectations on Mars once again, flying 107 metres south to land in totally new territory.
For the second time, the tissue-box-sized drone flew to a new landing site, hovered above ground that its navigation cameras had never seen before, then gently lowered itself to touchdown. NASA only had information about the new area from its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which images the red planet from space. The orbiter s pictures indicated that the spot was flat and should be safe for landing.
Ingenuity Mars first flew to the Red Planet on February 18, while being attached to the belly of NASA s Perseverance rover and later became the first to test power flight on another world, the Martian surface
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter can be seen on Mars as viewed by the Perseverance rover’s rear Hazard Camera on April 4, 2021. (Credit: NASA)
As we on the North Fork and across America ponder the atrocious mess our national politicians have made of this country, there’s one thing we don’t seem to be talking about: a tiny American helicopter flew above the surface of Mars last week.
Yes, that’s right. If you somehow missed it, a drone controlled by NASA scientists from 180 million miles away flew above the surface of Mars, the very first time as far as anyone knows, anyway anything like this has happened.
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