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Mars helicopter ready for first flight
Updated / Saturday, 10 Apr 2021
12:46
The Ingenuity helicopter on Mars (Pic: NASA)
The helicopter that NASA has placed on Mars could make its first flight over the Red Planet within two days after a successful initial test of its rotors, the US space agency has said.
The current plan is for the 1.8kg helicopter, dubbed the Ingenuity, to take off from Mars Jezero Crater tomorrow at 10.54pm US eastern time (3.54am Irish time on Monday).
NASA said it will hover three metres above the surface for a half-minute.
It is the first-ever attempt at powered, controlled flight on another planet.
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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.
The names of
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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