Ingenuity: Unusual Flight for Mars’ Helicopter

Scientists and enthusiasts are all delighted with the Artemis I Mission, which is expected to launch an unmanned capsule into orbit around the moon later this month. l’ingenuity martian helicopter from NASA along with the . taken to Mars perseverance robber took off for its 30th flight. It was a very short flight and came no further than 5 meters from the ground. It moved only two meters and landed again after a few seconds. Luckily there was enough time to take pictures.

However, the flight has reached its target. Ingenuity’s last flight took place on June 11, 2022, when the helicopter stopped for the arrival of theMarch winter (101 Martian days, the sun). Now in the Jezero crater it is still winter, temperatures drop to -86 degrees. The amount of energy hitting the solar panels cannot power long flights. However, the batteries charge enough to allow for short jumps. Spring is approaching on the crater and Ingenuity will come into play again.

NASA checked the rotor before flight by spinning it at 2,573 revolutions per minute. Based on the collected data, no one expected that the drone could live that long and survive the Martian winter. Positive sign waiting to be sent Mars than two other comparable helicopters. This one with a mission he should bring back to Earth Soil samples from Mars collected by Perseverance.

The rover continues its exploration, at the moment it has spent 536 days on Mars and sent pictures. From this comes an unusual detail, something that looks like a thread from the perforation system. Here the scholars will have to understand its origin. Maybe a wire the engineers left when the rover was still on the ground. If the wire was not sterilized perfectly, the risk of to contaminate with terrestrial molecules the soil and rock samples are extracted. It is therefore possible that the analyzes are biased.