Enlarge / NASA’s Mars Ingenuity helicopter has been flying across the red planet for more than a year. (credit: NASA) The achievement of powered flight on another world is one of the great spaceflight feats of the last decade. Since its first brief hop on April 19, 2021, the Mars Ingenuity helicopter has subsequently made […]
Enlarge / A close-up view of Ingenuity on Mars, as seen by the Perseverance rover, in April. (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU) Back in early September the small Ingenuity helicopter that NASA sent to Mars along with the Determination rover made its 13th flight on the red planet. It was a technically demanding flight, traversing nearly 210 meters […]
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter acquired this image using its navigation camera during its thin-atmosphere flight this week. (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Nearly seven months have passed since NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter made its first groundbreaking flight on Mars. Since that initial tentative hovering above the surface of Mars, Ingenuity has flown a progression of longer, more significant, and scientifically […]
Enlarge / This image depicts the ground tracks of NASA’s Perseverance rover (white) and Ingenuity Mars Helicopter (green) since arriving on Mars on Feb. 18. The upper yellow ellipse depicts the “South Séítah” region, which Ingenuity flew over during its 12th sortie. (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA’s tiny helicopter on Mars, which has a fuselage about the […]
NASA’s Mars helicopter has now completed nine flights. (credit: NASA) On Monday, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter made its ninth and most ambitious flight yet. This time, the space agency said, the tiny flier took to the skies for 166.4 seconds and reached a maximum speed of 5 m/s. This is equivalent to 10 mph, or a […]
Enlarge / NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter is seen here in a close-up taken by Mastcam-Z, a pair of zoomable cameras aboard the Perseverance rover. (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA has resolved the issues with its Ingenuity helicopter on the surface of Mars and is ready to fly. The space agency announced on Saturday that it will attempt […]
Enlarge (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) On Tuesday, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) hosted a press conference where it detailed the plans for the Ingenuity drone that hitched a ride to Mars attached to the underside of the Perseverance rover. The scientists and engineers behind the drone announced that they’ve now picked a site for what is expected […]