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Old 04-30-2020, 01:18 PM   #3454
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So NASA is sending a Helicopter to Mars, Ingenuity is what it was named and will be able to cover significant ground as compared to the rover.


https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/


Launching between July and Aug 2020
The Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, is a technology demonstration to test powered flight on another world for the first time. It is hitching a ride on the Perseverance rover. A series of flight tests will be performed over a 30-Martian-day experimental window that will begin sometime in the spring of 2021. For the very first flight, the helicopter will take off a few feet from the ground, hover in the air for about 20 to 30 seconds, and land. That will be a major milestone: the very first powered flight in the extremely thin atmosphere of Mars! After that, the team will attempt additional experimental flights of incrementally farther distance and greater altitude. After the helicopter completes its technology demonstration, Perseverance will continue its scientific mission.

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