The US space agency's Ingenuity Mars helicopter has now made its third successful flight on the Red Planet. Today on Sunday, the little chopper rose to a height of 5m before speeding off laterally for 50m, which is half the length of a football field. It then came back to its take-off spot, for a total flight time of 80 seconds. Therefore, they want to find the chopper's limits even if means crashing it in the process, because they want to push the technology to its farthest extent. The previous two flights had been conducted on Monday and Thursday of last week. Monday was significant because it had been the first time a powered, controlled flight by an aircraft had been conducted on another world. It has granted the Ingenuity engineering team two more flights before Perseverance is commanded to get on with its primary mission of searching for life in Jezero. Jezero is the crater where Ingenuity was carried to by Nasa's Perseverance rover back in mid-February.
Sunday, April 25, 2021
Ingenuity: Nasa's Mars helicopter makes it three from three
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