NASA Conducts First Otherworldly Aircraft Accident Investigation
Engineers believe they have identified the likely cause of the crash of the space agency’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter.
Engineers believe they have identified the likely cause of the crash of the space agency’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter.
NASA’s nuclear-powered, dual-quadcopter rotorcraft is expected to travel tens of miles in an hour, much farther than any existing rover.
The two spacecraft landed on Mars in January 2004, giving scientists the first evidence the red planet once held water.
NASA’s Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, sent back on-board video of its 25th and longest flight above the Martian surface.
Team’s Ingenuity aircraft completed world’s first powered-controlled flight on another planet.
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One sol equals one solar day on Mars—and that’s about 24 hours, 39 minutes, and 35 seconds in Earth time. April 4 was officially “Sol 43” since NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on the fourth planet from the sun—and on that day, the drone rotorcraft Ingenuity separated from its mother ship, making the small leap to […]