NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter logs second flight
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. “W...