“The team’s goal is to keep Ingenuity ahead of Perseverance, which occasionally involves temporarily pushing beyond communication limits. “The portion of Jezero Crater that the rover and helicopter are currently exploring has a lot of rugged terrain which makes communications dropouts more likely,” said Josh Anderson, the Ingenuity team lead at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. NASAs Ames and Langley Research Centers provided significant flight. NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has completed 57 flights since first taking to the skies above the Red Planet on April 19, 2021, far exceeding its originally planned technology demonstration of up to five flights. Now that Nasa has contact again, mission control will run health checks before the helicopter can fly again. The Ingenuity drone was built by NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. There was also no way to tell what condition Ingenuity was in as it waited for Perseverance to come back in range. “Contact was re-established June 28 when Perseverance crested the hill and could see Ingenuity again.”Įven though the loss of contact was expected, re-establishing it was not guaranteed with engineers unable to run health checks on the aircraft as there was no signal. NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured this video of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s 54th flight on Aug.
But since its history-making first flight in April 2021, the helicopter has flown 28 times, and preparation. Ingenuity's most recent hop came just nine days after its 50th flight.The 4-pound (1.8 kilogram) dual-rotor helicopter was originally intended to make just five flights in the thin Martian. Composed of 53 images, this mosaic looks west toward the rim of Mars’ Jezero Crater on July 8, 2023, the 847th Martian day, or sol, of NASA’s Perseverance rover mission. “In anticipation of this loss of communications, the Ingenuity team had already developed recontact plans for when the rover would drive back within range,” Nasa said in a statement. Ingenuity, NASA’s autonomous Mars helicopter, was only meant to complete five flights. Nasa reveals what its 'Ingenuity' helicopter sounds like flying on the Red Planet
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