May 27, 2021
This image of Ingenuity was taken on May 23, 2021 – the day after its sixth flight – by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard the Perseverance Mars rover.
The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was built by JPL, which also manages the technology demonstration project for NASA Headquarters. It is supported by NASA’s Science, Aeronautics Research, and Space Technology mission directorates. NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, and NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, provided significant flight performance analysis and technical assistance during Ingenuity’s development. AeroVironment Inc., Qualcomm, and SolAero also provided design assistance and major vehicle components. Lockheed Martin Space designed and manufactured the Mars Helicopter Delivery System.
The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has been so successful with its five previous test flights that NASA has announced it's now planning a sixth flight. The mission
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter lands with a soft bounce after its fifth flight on May 7, 2021. The images in this GIF were captured by the Mastcam-Z imager aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover.
3D Footage Of NASA’s Mars Ingenuity Helicopter Flying Above The Martian Surface Will Leave You Stunned
The Ingenuity helicopter takes off, hovers for a few seconds before zooming past our eyes to the right of the screen By Edited by Gadgets 360 Newsdesk | Updated: 19 May 2021 12:28 IST
Photo Credit: NASA
Highlights
The rover can be seen flying across the surface of Mars
The video shows the flight in 3D
NASA shared stunning footage of its Ingenuity Mars Helicopter taking flight on the red planet a few weeks ago. Now, the agency s engineers have rendered the flight in 3D and shared a video of the same on their YouTube channel. The helicopter takes off vertically, hovers for a few seconds before zooming past our eyes to the right of the screen. It then returns and lands almost at the same spot. The agency says that seeing the sequence was almost like standing on the red planet, next to Perseverance rover, which captured the historic moment and