NASA is continuing the flights made by the Ingenuity Helicopter for the many missions it still has left to explore the Red Planet, bringing the spacecraft more purpose than what it set out to be. The space helicopter's recent flight made its 29th outing on Mars, and it resumes the mission that would continue the surveying of the neighboring planet.
NASA Ingenuity Helicopter Completes 29th Mission on Mars
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A full scale model of the experimental Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, which will be carried under the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, is displayed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on February 16, 2021 in Pasadena, California.
Over the weekend, a mission by the Ingenuity Helicopter took place according to NASA Jet Propulsions Laboratory (JPL), and the agency revealed on Twitter that it is the 29th mission of the spacecraft. NASA JPL said that this was the first mission of the space helicopter on the Winter season of Mars, and it was a successful one, says the agency.
The Winter season on Mars brought the Ingenuity's sensor dead, which is the same as in some places here on the planet. However, the technology that adapted to Earth's winter would not be the same as Mars, as the agency does not know the full extent of the weather conditions on the planet if it is treacherous and dangerous to the company.
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Ingenuity Helicopter Lives on, To Continue Further
There are reports that the Ingenuity would fulfill its mission by its fifth or sixth flight, but it beat the odds and expectations of the company, now completing its 29th flight for NASA. It will continue to do its missions for the national space agency despite the many hindrances that it will face in the future until the time it truly retires for good.
NASA's Mars Perseverance Mission
NASA's Mars Perseverance Mission began last 2020, and it brought the world another perspective on the neighboring planet apart from the previous ventures of the space agency towards it. The Ingenuity Helicopter is set to experience the Winter season on Mars, focusing on the remote vehicle's hibernation during the coldest times on the planet.
Ingenuity presents a way to survey the planet from afar, and it would not have to be on the ground to give more insights into the mission and serves as the first look for the Perseverance to study further. The Ingenuity and Perseverance work together to provide more information regarding a particular place, and it is something unique to the mission compared to Curiosity.
The Perseverance mission gets an advantage over other Mars missions and surveys that NASA had in the previous times. That is because the mission had a specific company that came with the rover, particularly one of the first aircraft that set itself on the new planet, with Ingenuity giving the agency more than what they initially expected.
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Written by Isaiah Richard
