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NASA revealed footage of the next-generation rotors and blades for its forthcoming Mars helicopter, which will assist in finding the best places to explore and search for past life on the desert planet.
The Mars helicopter aims to achieve the first-ever flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft on the red planet. HowStuffWorks takes a look.
If you would like to see more articles like this please support our coverage of the space program by becoming a Spaceflight Now Member. If everyone who enjoys our website helps fund it, we can expand and improve our coverage further. The work isn’t over for NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter. Engineers hope to fly the rotorcraft four more times in the next two weeks before calling it quits on the pioneering technology experiment, which accomplished the first powered flight of an aircraft on another planet Monday. As officials celebrated the helicopter’s historic flight, teams were al...
/ Members of the NASA Mars Helicopter team inspect the flight model, inside the Space Simulator, a 25-foot-wide vacuum chamber at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on Feb. 1, 2019. NASA let us know, after Perseverance had landed on Mars, that a small piece of fabric from the Wright brothers’ 1903 Flyer has made the journey too -- and is attached to a small helicopter which is going to fly over the Martian surface maybe as soon as this weekend. Aviation commentator Dan Patterson has some thoughts. Who could have imagined that an artifact from Dayton and the Wright bro...
Getting to Mars and landing was only the beginning. Now that the Perseverance rover is on the surface it's time to check out its systems.