Weeks after suffering a mid-air glitch on the way to its new landing ground, the Ingenuity Helicopter on Mars successfully completed its seventh flight. During the seventh flight, the rotorcraft landed on a new landing ground, an area that was previously not surveyed by the craft or the Perseverance rover. The rotorcraft logged a 62.8 seconds flight time as it …
The Mars Ingenuity Helicopter has been one of the most talked-about feats of modern avionics in the new decade. The small aircraft went for its sixth sortie on May 27, however towards the end of that leg, “something happened: Ingenuity began adjusting its velocity and tilting back and forth in an oscillating pattern,” Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said in a …
