Nasa ingenuity articles
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Ingenuity, NASA's "little 'copter that could" (and did!)
In 2020, NASA's Perseverance rover launched for Mars with a stowaway: a tiny drone, created by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.The drone, named Ingenuity, was likened to a Wright Brothers' plane on Mars, making the first flight on another planet. The entire drone had to be very light, because Mars has only 1% of the atmosphere of Earth; that's hard for a flying machine. So, Ingenuity weighs only four pounds. Seeing red: Mankind gets closer to Mars ("Sunday Morning")NASA...
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Ingenuity: NASA's remarkable Martian helicopter
When NASA added a drone named Ingenuity to its Mars 2020 rover Perseverance, it expected the tiny four-pound helicopter to fly a total of five very brief missions in the thin Martian atmosphere. But Ingenuity far surpassed all expectations, flying dozens of flights before suffering damage to its rotors in January. Correspondent David Pogue reports on how the tiny drone, created from off-the-shelf parts, continued to provide valuable data and images from the Red Planet three years into its...
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NASA Video Charts Ingenuity's 10-Mile Flight Path Around Mars https://petapixel.com/wp-admin/post-new.php#wpseo-meta-section-social
NASA has released a fascinating flight map that charts all the Mars avigations taken by the space agency's recently defunct Ingenuity helicopter. [Read More]