WASHINGTON: NASA’s MARS Helicopters have pushed their boundaries to successfully complete ninth and “most challenging” flights because they first took off on the red planet, the US Space Agency said NASA.
The Mini helicopter flew to the red planet on February 18, while attached to the stomach of the NASA perseverance Rover.
Now in the air for 166.4 seconds, 2.8 minutes and fly at 5 meters per second, said NASA.
“#Marshelicopter pushes the red planetary limit.
Rotorcraft has completed the 9th and most challenging flights, flying for 166.4 seconds at a speed of 5 m / s,” NASA tweeted.
“On flight 9 we took items to a new level with high-speed flights in unfriendly fields, which would take us far from the perseverance Rover,” NASA said before taking flight.
In February, the persistence of Rover landed at the Jezero Mars crater, which harbored the large lake and the river delta in the ancient past.
In early April, a little helicopter was deployed to the red land, kicking a five-month campaign along the month designed to show that decent air exploration on the red planet, Space.com reported.
Aced Ingenuity that a mission that shows original technology and is valued with an extension, which aims to show off the potential scouting Mars Rotorcraft.
For example, the persistence team looks forward to studying the photos.
During the 9 flight, the mini helicopter flew over a rough area called “Seitak”, marked with sandy ripples which was a very challenging field for Rovers and took color pictures.
Medan, with stones and ripples, shadows and textures, and ups and downs, challenges the Ingenuity navigation algorithm.
“We say that the features are all located in a flat.
Which frees the algorithm from trying to do variations with high terrain, and allows it to concentrate on interpreting movement of features with the helicopter movement only,” Chairman of the Chairman of the pilot Havard F.
Grip, and Perseverance of representatives of the Ken Williford scientist project said a blog post.
Within a week ahead, ingenuity will send back color images that persistence scientists are waiting for learning.
Pictures jerked with ingenuity including “stab the stone showing contact between the main geological unit on the Jezero crater floor”, Grip said.
Images also include a fracture system called the persistence team “Ridges Ridges”.
Scientists Rover hopes to visit it some to investigate whether the ancient surface habitat may be preserved there.
Self-Droping Rover Robot Robot, last week, was set for an epic trip across the Jezero crater floor to find signs of ancient life.
It drives with a top speed of 120 meters per hour, said NASA.