Mars Ingenuity helicopter completes its toughest flight yet
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Katie Hunt, CNN
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(CNN) Ingenuity, the helicopter that accompanied the Perseverance rover on its Mars mission, has undertaken its ninth and most nerve-wracking flight since it first took off on the red planet.
Although we don t have the full details about what it accomplished, NASA confirmed in a tweet on July 5 that Ingenuity had completed the flight.
#MarsHelicopter pushes its Red Planet limits.
The rotorcraft completed its 9th and most challenging flight yet, flying for 166.4 seconds at a speed of 5 m/s. Take a look at this shot of Ingenuity’s shadow captured with its navigation camera. https://t.co/TNCdXWcKWEpic.twitter.com/zUIbrr7Qw9 NASA JPL (@NASAJPL) July 5, 2021
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Ingenuity helicopter keeps on setting records on Mars, and it s barely spent half a year over there.
(Photo : NASA via Getty Images) UNSPECIFIED: In this concept illustration provided by NASA, NASA s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter stands on the Red Planet s surface as NASA s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover (partially visible on the left) rolls away. NASA s Perseverance (Mars 2020) rover will store rock and soil samples in sealed tubes on the planet s surface for future missions to retrieve in the area known as Jezero crater on the planet Mars.
The little chopper just completed its ninth and latest flight on the Red Planet recently, and it tested out a few new tricks while doing it, reports Space.com. It stayed airborne for almost three minutes and was flying as fast as 16 feet per second, according to this tweet by the NASA JPL Twitter account:
Mars Ingenuity helicopter completes its toughest flight yet
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