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NASA Ingenuity helicopter will test its limits tomorrow with second flight Following its initial success, NASA is already planning a second flight with its Mars Ingenuity helicopter. The next flight, which will take place tomorrow, April 22, will take Ingenuity farther off the ground and tilt it sideways a bit to fly at an angle. NASA plans to share the results from the test flight on its Mars Perseverance website. On April 19, the Ingenuity helicopter conducted its first flight on Mars, one that was a success and involved operating the aerial vehicle around 10ft above the ground. At that tim...

Nasa’s Mars helicopter has aced its second test flight, soaring even higher and longer than before. The 4lbs (1.8kg) aircraft, named Ingenuity, hovered longer and also flew side to side this time, according to Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California. It achieved the intended altitude of 16ft (five metres) and even accelerated sideways 7ft (two metres). This hop lasted 52 seconds, 13 seconds longer than the first one. The Mars Ingenuity helicopter hovers above the surface of the planet during its second flight (Nasa via AP) “Go big or go home!” the JPL tweeted in announcin...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Caltech grad students helped JPL build a custom wind tunnel in a vacuum chamber for the Mars Ingenuity helicopter The Ingenuity helicopter may be the first vehicle ever to fly on Mars, but Mars was not the first place it has ever flown. Before packaging it up and blasting it to the Red Planet, engineers at JPL gave the helicopter a trial run in a special wind tunnel designed with help from researchers at Caltech. To simulate flying on a planet where the atmosphere is 100 times thinner than Earth’s, a custom wind tunnel was built inside of an 85-foot-tall, 25-f...

Nasa’s Mars helicopter has aced its second test flight, soaring even higher and longer than before. The 4lbs (1.8kg) aircraft, named Ingenuity, hovered longer and also flew side to side this time, according to Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California. It achieved the intended altitude of 16ft (five metres) and even accelerated sideways 7ft (two metres). This hop lasted 52 seconds, 13 seconds longer than the first one. The Mars Ingenuity helicopter hovers above the surface of the planet during its second flight (Nasa via AP) “Go big or go home!” the JPL tweeted in announcin...

Nasa’s Mars helicopter has aced its second test flight, soaring even higher and longer than before. The 4lbs (1.8kg) aircraft, named Ingenuity, hovered longer and also flew side to side this time, according to Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California. It achieved the intended altitude of 16ft (five metres) and even accelerated sideways 7ft (two metres). This hop lasted 52 seconds, 13 seconds longer than the first one. The Mars Ingenuity helicopter hovers above the surface of the planet during its second flight (Nasa via AP) “Go big or go home!” the JPL tweeted in announcin...