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This is the first color image of the Martian surface taken by an aerial vehicle while it was aloft. The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured it with its color camera during its second successful flight test on April 22, 2021. At the time this image, Ingenuity was 17 feet (5.2 meters) above the surface and pitching (moving the camera’s field of view upward) so the helicopter could begin its 7-foot (2-meter) translation to the west – away from the Perseverance rover. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA s Ingenuity Mars helicopter logs second flight
NASA’s
Ingenuity helicopter successfully completed its second Mars flight on April 22, 2021 – the 18th sol, or Martian day, of its experimental flight test window. Lasting 51.9 seconds, the flight added several new challenges to the first,
“So far, the engineering telemetry we have received and analyzed tell us that the flight met expectations and our prior computer modeling has been accurate,” said Bob Balaram, chief engineer for the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California. “We have two flights of Mars under our belts, which means that there is still a lot to learn during this month of Ingenuity.”
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NASA s Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Completes Second Flight, Soars higher
NASA Ingenuity helicopter successfully carried out its second flight on Mars on April 22. This comes after completing its successful flight on April 19.
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Ingenuity helicopter successfully carried out its second flight on Mars on April 22. The hop lasted 51.9 seconds facing several challenges including a higher maximum altitude, longer duration, and sideways movement. The success comes after the US space agency successfully completed its first flight Mars flight on April 19.
According to NASA, Ingenuity second flight took off at 5:33 a.m. EDT (2:33 am PDT), or 12:33 p.m local Mars time. The flight topped out at 10 feet above the surface and climbed to an altitude of 16 feet. After the helicopter hovered, its flight control system performed a slight 5-degree tilt, allowing some of the thrust from the counter
Published April 23, 2021, 10:28 AM
WASHINGTON NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter successfully completed its second Mars flight on Thursday, achieving a higher maximum altitude, longer duration, and sideways movement, according to NASA.
Image taken by cameras aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars, April 5, 2021 shows Mars helicopter Ingenuity. (NASA / MANILA BULLETIN)
Ingenuity took off again at 5:33 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. The new flight, following the first one on Monday, lasted 51.9 seconds, and the helicopter climbed to 5 meters.
After the helicopter hovered briefly, its flight control system performed a slight tilt, allowing some of the thrust from the counter-rotating rotors to accelerate the craft sideways for 2 meters.
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An image of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter during its second flight on April 22, 2021. The photo was captured by the Perseverance rover, located about 70 meters away. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
After making history as the first powered aircraft on another planet, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flew for a second time, this time even farther and longer.
The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter that has taken the aerospace world by storm took to the Martian skies again Thursday, April 22, for a flight slightly higher and lengthier flight its first. NASA officials at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, confirmed the helicopter successfully took off to an altitude of 16 feet (5 meters) above the surface, tilted about 5 degrees to travel flew 7 feet (2 meters) downrange and finally traveled back to its original takeoff point before successfully touching down.