Hello ladies and gents this is the Viking telling you that today we are talking about
HELICOPTER ON MARS
- Name Ingenuity
- Main Job A technology demonstration to test the first powered flight on Mars. The helicopter rode to Mars attached to the belly of the Perseverance rover.
- Launch July 30, 2020, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
- Landed Feb. 18, 2021, Jezero Crater, Mars
- Length of Mission A 30-day period, with multiple test flights
The Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, is a technology demonstration to test powered flight on another world for the first time. It hitched a ride to Mars on the Perseverance rover. Once the rover reached a suitable "helipad" location, it released Ingenuity to the surface so it could perform a series of test flights over a 30-Martian-day experimental window. The first flight was successfully performed on April 19, 2021.
For the first flight, the helicopter took off, climbed to about 10 feet (3 meters) above the ground, hovered in the air briefly, completed a turn, and then landed. It was a major milestone: the very first powered flight in the extremely thin atmosphere of Mars, and, in fact, the first such flight in any world beyond Earth. After that, the team planned additional experimental flights of incrementally farther distance and greater altitude. The helicopter successfully executed its second flight on April 22, 2021. After the helicopter completes its technology demonstration, Perseverance will continue its scientific mission.
and as always have a chilled day from the Viking
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