Of the entire little house robots scattered around the cosmos at this time Ingenuity, NASA’s Mars helicopter, is almost definitely my favorite. It has hugely exceeded its authentic project objectives and is now humming round like an alien gnat around the pink sands of Mars, playing the fun of flight on every other international.
On Saturday, NASA dropped the newest video of Ingenuity, permitting you to enjoy the ones thrills for your self.
All the way through Ingenuity’s twenty fifth flight, on April 18, the little rotorcraft that might maximum unquestionably did. The independent flight lined a distance of two,310 ft — about 6.5 soccer fields — at a tempo of 12 miles consistent with hour. It used to be a record-breaker, changing into the quickest and longest flight but (although, in accordance with how smartly its carried out on Mars, be expecting that listing to be damaged too (no hex)) and the entire thing used to be recorded with the chopper’s downward-facing digicam.
You’ll be able to see the video beneath:
“For our record-breaking flight, Ingenuity’s downward-looking navigation digicam supplied us with a wide ranging sense of what it might really feel like gliding 33 ft above the skin of Mars at 12 miles consistent with hour,” mentioned Teddy Tzanetos, who leads the Ingenuity crew out of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
Ginny, as its affectionately identified, lately skilled a brief bout of silence after getting into a low-power state, it is virtually able to fly once more. Its subsequent flight can be its twenty ninth. No longer unhealthy for a helicopter that used to be simplest meant to make 5 flights in 30 days. Possibly subsequent time it will even discover a secret doorway.
