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09 June 2021, 05:06 pm
NASA just sent their Ingenuity Mars Helicopter on another flight, and it looked extremely good out there.
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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.
CNET reports that NASA recorded a basically glitch-free flight for the Ingenuity helicopter, which once again flew above the surface of the Red Planet. It managed to stay airborne for over a minute, traveling a total of 106 meters to a new landing spot south of its most recent one. Here is the tweet sent out by the official NASA JPL (jet propulsion lab) Twitter account:
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Cullen Desforges
June 9th, 2021
The shadow of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter as it completes its seventh flight on Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Fresh off of a recent in-flight anomaly, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter lifted off of the Martian surface around noon local time on sol 107 (June 8, 2021) of the Perseverance rover mission. It then flew some 350 feet (about 106 meters) south of its liftoff spot before coming to rest at its new base of operations. The total flight time was 62.8 seconds.
According to NASA, this was the second time the helicopter landed at an airfield it did not survey from the air during a previous flight. For flight seven, scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory took advantage of imagery collected from the HiRISE camera aboard the space agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.