Work Progresses Toward Ingenuity's First Flight on Mars
Work Progresses Toward Ingenuityâs First Flight on Mars Written by NASA/JPL NASAâs Ingenuity helicopter unlocked its rotor blades, allowing them to spin freely, on April 7, 2021, the 47th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Download image › The Ingenuity team has identified a software solution for the command sequence issue identified on Sol 49 (April 9) during a planned high-speed spin-up test of the helicopterâs rotors. Over the weekend, the team considered and tested multiple potential solutions to this issue, concluding that minor modification a...
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