NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has made its EIGHTH successful flight on the Red Planet NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter completed its eighth successful flight on Mars The 4-pound helicopter flew 525 feet (160meters) for 77.4 seconds. It landed roughly 440 feet (133.5m) away from Perseverance It captures its own shadow, 14 days after its seventh flight By Chris … Read more
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has made its seventh successful flight on Mars, this time landing in an airfield that had only previously been seen by a Mars orbiter. The 4-pound helicopter made its successful journey on June 6, more than two weeks after its last flight. ‘Another successful flight,’ NASA JPL tweeted. The miniature helicopter flew … Read more
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has made its seventh successful flight on Mars, this time landing in an airfield that had only previously been seen by a Mars orbiter. The 4-pound helicopter made its successful journey on June 6, more than two weeks after its last flight. ‘Another successful flight,’ NASA JPL tweeted. The miniature helicopter flew … Read more
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter has survived its sixth flight on the Red Planet, but not everyone went to plan, with some ‘unexpected motion’ in the final few feet. This motion was from an ‘image processing issue’ but the 4lb copter ‘muscled through’ the final 213ft of its 703ft flight over the Martian surface, NASA JPL … Read more
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter is going to attempt a sixth flight on Mars next week, reaching speeds of up to nine miles per hour and flying for over two minutes. This will be the first flight as part of the ‘operations demonstration phase’ that includes helping the Perseverance rover in its mission to find ancient signs … Read more
The world has seen a number of videos showing NASA’s Ingenuity flying above the surface of Mars, but now, for the first time, we can hear the humming of its tiny rotors spinning. The low hum from blades spinning at more than 2,500 revolutions per minute is barely audible and almost sounds like a low-pitched, … Read more
The world has seen a number of videos showing NASA’s Ingenuity flying above the surface of Mars, but now, for the first time, we can hear the humming of its tiny rotors spinning. The low hum from blades spinning at more than 2,500 revolutions per minute is barely audible and almost sounds like a low-pitched, … Read more
NASA announced Friday that Ingenuity successfully completed its fourth flight, which saw the small helicopter ‘fly farther and faster than ever before.’ The $85 million drone traveled 872 feet (266 meters) at a height of 16 feet (5 meters) for two minutes. The American space agency received the data downlink at 1:39pm ET that showed the … Read more
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter will attempt to fly on Mars for the fourth time today and could reach airspeeds of up to eight miles per hour as it soars for two minutes. The space agency said it would continue to push the 4lb copter to its limit in each subsequent test, this time almost doubling the … Read more
NASA has shared a ‘bird’s eye view’ image of the Perseverance rover, taken by the Ingenuity helicopter as it soared above the Martian surface. In a tweet, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) team said: ‘I spy with my little eye…a rover,’ sharing the image with Perseverance visible in the top left corner. It was taken … Read more