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NASA s Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Completes Second Flight, Soars higher
NASA Ingenuity helicopter successfully carried out its second flight on Mars on April 22. This comes after completing its successful flight on April 19.
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Ingenuity helicopter successfully carried out its second flight on Mars on April 22. The hop lasted 51.9 seconds facing several challenges including a higher maximum altitude, longer duration, and sideways movement. The success comes after the US space agency successfully completed its first flight Mars flight on April 19.
According to NASA, Ingenuity second flight took off at 5:33 a.m. EDT (2:33 am PDT), or 12:33 p.m local Mars time. The flight topped out at 10 feet above the surface and climbed to an altitude of 16 feet. After the helicopter hovered, its flight control system performed a slight 5-degree tilt, allowing some of the thrust from the counter
NASA lets kids build Mars helicopter video game
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Children will be using the visual programming language – Scratch, to design their game, and will need a computer with internet access, to start the game development.
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NASA lets kids build Mars helicopter video game.
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Children will be using the visual programming language – Scratch, to design their game, and will need a computer with internet access, to start the game development.
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NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter, which is expected to take its first test flight on April 14, will be the first powered flight on another planet. To mark this unique milestone, the space agency has shared a new activity in its Learning Space, that allows children to “code a Mars helicopter video game.”
“This is the first time that Ingenuity has been on its own on the surface of Mars,” said MiMi Aung, Ingenuity project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. “But we now have confirmation that we have the right insulation, the right heaters, and enough energy in its battery to survive the cold night, which is a big win for the team. We’re excited to continue to prepare Ingenuity for its first flight test.”
If everything goes as planned, the Ingenuity helicopter will make its first flight soon within a 30-day window from the time it touched down Saturday. It will be the first flight of its kind on another world a Wright Brothers moment on Mars.
“This is the first time that Ingenuity has been on its own on the surface of Mars,” said MiMi Aung, Ingenuity project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. “But we now have confirmation that we have the right insulation, the right heaters, and enough energy in its battery to survive the cold night, which is a big win for the team. We’re excited to continue to prepare Ingenuity for its first flight test.”
If everything goes as planned, the Ingenuity helicopter will make its first flight soon within a 30-day window from the time it touched down Saturday. It will be the first flight of its kind on another world a Wright Brothers moment on Mars.
By Esprit Smith,
NASA’s Earth Science News Team
Researchers with NASA’s Delta-X mission conduct preliminary field work in coastal Louisiana’s delta region. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Teams are headed out by land, water, and air to collect data that will be used to forecast land gain and loss in the Mississippi River Delta as a result of sea level rise.
Around this time last year, scientists and researchers for Delta-X – NASA’s new investigation tasked with studying the Mississippi River Delta – were readying their boats and planes for their first field campaign in coastal Louisiana.
For the water-based part of the campaign, several boats were to be deployed to measure the flow of water through river channels and the subsequent transport of sediment across the region. For the airborne component, three planes outfitted with specialized remote sensing instruments were scheduled to fly over specific areas, taking measurements to estimate water and sediment flows