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NASA regains contact with mini-helicopter on Mars
11 months ago

NASA regains contact with mini-helicopter on Mars

Hindustan Times  

NASA has re-established contact with its tiny helicopter on Mars, the US space agency said Saturday, after an unexpected outage prompted fears that the hard-working craft had finally met its end. NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter Ingenuity, a drone about 1.6 feet tall, arrived on Mars in 2021 aboard the rover Perseverance and became the first motorized craft to fly autonomously …

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Junk on Mars: Ingenuity helicopter spots wreckage of gear that helped perseverance rover land
2 years, 7 months ago

Junk on Mars: Ingenuity helicopter spots wreckage of gear that helped perseverance rover land

India Today  

The Ingenuity helicopter, which recently got a mission extension on Mars after completing nearly a year-long mission has spotted the cocoon that safely got it to the surface of the Red Planet. Ingenuity captured 10 coloured aerial images of the wreckage on the surface of Mars, which is now a human-made space junk on another planet. Mars Sample Return’s reconnaissance …

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Nasa detects 1000th asteroid to come close to Earth
3 years, 3 months ago

Nasa detects 1000th asteroid to come close to Earth

India Today  

Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has tracked the 1000th Near-Earth Asteroid after its radars picked up 2021 PJ1 as it passed at a distance of just 1.7 million kilometers from Earth. A global radar system tracks NEOs “2021 PJ1 is a small asteroid, so when it passed us at a distance of over a million miles, we couldn’t obtain detailed radar …

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Nasa’s Ingenuity helicopter survives wild flight after a navigation error. Here’s what happened
3 years, 6 months ago

Nasa’s Ingenuity helicopter survives wild flight after a navigation error. Here’s what happened

Hindustan Times  

Nasa’s Ingenuity helicopter managed to land safely on the Martian surface after a navigation timing error sent it on a wild sixth flight. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration shared a sequence of images, taken by the navigation camera aboard the Ingenuity Mars helicopter, that depicted the last 29 seconds of the rotorcraft’s sixth flight. This image of Mars was …

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Mars Ingenuity helicopter begins ops phase next week, will fly to new airfield during sixth flight
3 years, 7 months ago

Mars Ingenuity helicopter begins ops phase next week, will fly to new airfield during sixth flight

India Today  

After successfully completing five flights in an inhospitable Martian environment, the Ingenuity helicopter is all set for its sixth liftoff. According to Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which has designed the Mars helicopter, the flight plan begins with the helicopter lifting off to 10 meters, heading southwest for about 150 meters. The Ingenuity helicopter earlier completed its fifth flight on Mars with …

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NASA's Mars helicopter makes history with successful flight on Red Planet
3 years, 8 months ago

NASA's Mars helicopter makes history with successful flight on Red Planet

The Hindu  

NASA's miniature robot helicopter Ingenuity performed a successful takeoff and landing on Mars early on Monday, achieving the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft over the surface of another planet, the U.S. space agency said. The solar-powered whirligig's debut on the Red Planet marked a 21st-century Wright Brothers moment for NASA, which said success could pave the way for …

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NASA's Mars helicopter mission next month may pave the way for interplanetary flight
3 years, 8 months ago

NASA's Mars helicopter mission next month may pave the way for interplanetary flight

Hindustan Times  

NASA engineers plan to send a miniature helicopter whirring just above the surface of Mars next month in an interplanetary aviation experiment that, if successful, would mark the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft on another celestial body. The U.S. space agency is comparing the Martian debut of its 4-lb solar-powered whirlybird, dubbed Ingenuity, with the Wright Brothers' first …

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Historic Mars helicopter test flight set for early April
3 years, 8 months ago

Historic Mars helicopter test flight set for early April

Live Mint  

NASA engineers plan to send a miniature helicopter whirring just above the surface of Mars next month in an interplanetary aviation experiment that, if successful, would mark the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft on another celestial body. The US space agency is comparing the Martian debut of its 4-lb solar-powered whirlybird, dubbed Ingenuity, with the Wright Brothers' first …

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NASA Mars Perseverance rover: first video and new images
3 years, 10 months ago

NASA Mars Perseverance rover: first video and new images

CNN  

CNN — During its harrowing descent to the surface of Mars last Thursday, NASA’s Perseverance rover captured video that the agency is calling “How to Land on Mars.” The video, along with other newly released footage, gives earthlings back home a better sense of the sights and sounds on the red planet. 🎧https://t.co/JswvAWC2IP#CountdownToMars — NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover February 22, …

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