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There Mars-Helicopter Ingenuity recently got his 50. Flight completed. It almost lasted two and a half minutes and guided the aircraft over a distance of 322 meters. On the April 13 flight, the Mars helicopter also scored one new altitude record von 18 meters.
Seit Ingenuity am 19. April 2021 for the first time on Mars took off he put more than 11,6 Kilometer back and was a total of more than 89 minutes in the air. Just as the Wright brothers continued their flight experiments after their first flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903, so does NASA’s Ingenuity team, continuing to learn from flying the first airplane on another world, becoming NASA directors Lori Glaze in a broadcast from the US space agency quoted.
A video of the 50th flight is not yet available. However, NASA looks back on Ingenuity’s time on Mars in a recently released clip.
Each time Ingenuity lifts off, it offers new perspectives that no previous planetary mission has been able to match, the NASA broadcast said. The Mars helicopter showed how aircraft could serve as scouts for future planetary expeditions. Future Mars aircraft should also benefit from the device’s flight data. Among other things, they will be responsible for the development of the Sample Recovery Helicopters used to collect the rock samples from the Mars rover Perseverance on the red planet from 2030.
