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Nasa's first aircraft investigation outside Earth: What killed Ingenuity on Mars?

Engineers from Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and AeroVironment are finalising an in-depth assessment of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's final flight, which took place on January 18, 2024. The investigation into Ingenuity's final flight suggests that its navigation system's failure to accurately track surface features led to a series of events that culminated in the mission's end. The team concluded that …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Mangalyaan-2: Why India needs to go to Mars

India Today

After its historic success with Mangalyaan, the Indian Space Research Organisation is gearing up to return to Mars with a bigger, bolder, and braver mission. Building on the success of the Mars Orbiter Mission a.k.a Mangalyaan, the second edition aims to go a step further by landing a rover and helicopter on the Martian surface. This mission, highlighted on National …

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8 months ago

NASA's Mars helicopter says goodbye: Check Top 5 videos to relive its history

Hindustan Times

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter has sent its final message to Earth and will now serve as a stationary data-gathering unit on the red planet's surface, the space agency announced. Watch: How the helicopter was deployed A series of images captured from March 26 to April 3, 2021, depicts the deployment process of NASA's …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Humans are already trashing Mars - despite never setting foot on it: Shocking map reveals the 15,694lbs of space junk piling up on the Red Planet including crashed spacecraft and discarded drill bits

Daily Mail

It joins an increasing pile of junk sent from Earth since the first landing in 1971 NASA's Ingenuity helicopter is now obsolete on Mars because it can no longer fly Despite never even setting foot on the planet, human-made space junk is already piling up on Mars. The new map reveals the locations of debris from spacecraft that have landed …

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1 year ago

UFO on Mars? When NASA's ‘Marscopter’ unveiled photos of 'otherworldly' wreckage on the red planet

Hindustan Times

NASA's Mars helicopter, named Ingenuity or “Marscopter,” released captivating images of wreckage on the Martian surface last year. NASA's Mars helicopter captures captivating images of wreckage on Martian surface. As vehicles entering Mars' atmosphere endure extreme conditions, reaching speeds of almost 12,500 miles per hour, the longevity and performance of Ingenuity have surpassed NASA's expectations. Kenneth Farley, the mission's project …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Scientists pick stash site for Mars soil samples collected by Perseverance rover

The Independent

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Nasa Perseverance Rover will soon stash select samples of the Martian soil in …

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2 years, 6 months ago

NASA’s Plan to Get Ingenuity Through the Martian Winter

Wired

Ingenuity, NASA’s autonomous Mars helicopter, was only meant to complete five flights. But now Ingenuity faces a new challenge: It’s unclear if the helicopter will survive the coming Martian winter, which begins in July. Since a Martian year amounts to roughly two years on Earth, and the helicopter is in the northern hemisphere, this is Ingenuity’s first winter. “We believe …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Mars Ingenuity helicopter is on borrowed time as it endures winter

CNN

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. “Challenges like these are to be expected: After hundreds of sols and dozens of flights beyond the five flights originally planned, the solar-powered helicopter is in uncharted terrain,” Teddy Tzanetos, Ingenuity team lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, wrote in an update. Using its onboard Helicopter Base Station, Perseverance …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Mayday…mayday: Ingenuity loses signals as Mars get cold, helicopter calls home for help

India Today

The Ingenuity Helicopter, which has emerged as the biggest asset on a foreign planet, gave engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory a brief heart attack when it missed a planned communications session with its accomplice, the Perseverance rover. Based on the latest data beamed back to Earth, the team found that the communications dropout on May 3, Sol 427 of …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Nasa’s Mars helicopter completes record breaking flight

The Independent

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Nasa’s Ingenuity helicopter just completed its 25th flight on the Red Planet, flying …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Ingenuity helicopter to keep flying on Mars till Sept, identify spots to land future missions

India Today

Just about a year ago, engineers, scientists, astronomers had no idea if a controlled flight was even possible on another planet. Nasa has extended the operation of the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars till September, where it will support the Perseverance rover, trundling on the surface, in its science operations trying to look for evidence of ancient microbial life in the …

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2 years, 10 months ago

A year after landing on Mars, Perseverance rover sets sights on intriguing new target

CNN

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Since then, this innovative rover has inspired humanity and accomplished a series of firsts, from transmitting the first audio recording of sounds from Mars, to capturing the Ingenuity helicopter’s history making first powered, controlled flight on another planet, to producing oxygen on Mars for the first time ever with the MOXIE experiment,” …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Vacation on Mars: Earth to lose contact with Red Planet; rovers, landers to take a break due to solar conjunction

India Today

Weeks after collecting the first set of samples to return to Earth from Mars, the Perseverance rover is looking for a parking space in the Jazero crater as it takes a much-needed break from science duties. The rover will wait out the solar conjunction when the Sun blocks the signals to Mars shutting down the communication links between the two …

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3 years, 3 months ago

NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter captures 3D view of rock-covered mound on Martian surface

India Today

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter provided a rare 3D view of a rock-covered mound on the Martian surface. The image of the geologic target, which the Mars rover team calls “Faillefeu”, was captured during Ingenuity's 13th flight on September 4. Images like these can help @NASAPersevere's team plan the rover's science campaign: https://t.co/ZiLaIyQiom pic.twitter.com/YgCS5NWQc7 — NASA September 17, 2021 The space …

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3 years, 5 months ago

These coloured pictures from Ingenuity helicopter offer new insights into unseen Martian world

India Today

Being dubbed as one of the most advanced systems to arrive on Mars, the Ingenuity helicopter has now added one more dimension to the aerial exploration of another planet. With Ingenuity, we now have this intermediate-scale imagery that nicely fills the gap in resolution,” said Perseverance Deputy Project Scientist Ken Williford of Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. NASA’s …

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3 years, 6 months ago

CNSA's Zhurong rover, lander click selfie with dusty Martian surface in the background

Firstpost

The orbiter and lander both display small Chinese flags while the lander has outlines of the mascots for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics. The dusty, rocky Martian surface and a Chinese rover and lander bearing small national flags were seen in photos released Friday that the rover took on the red planet. The four pictures released by the …

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3 years, 6 months ago

From creating oxygen to watching first flight: All about Perseverance rover's first 100 days on Mars

India Today

In February of this year, the excitement was palpable at Nasa headquarters, which was overlooking a critical phase of a multi-million-dollar mission that was hurtling towards the surface on another planet autonomously. pic.twitter.com/ER5vWebqpb — NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover June 1, 2021 Taking the first spin Two weeks after it landed on the planet, the rover took a short drive on …

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3 years, 7 months ago

Nasa captures sound of chopper blades on Mars

Hindustan Times

First came the amazing pictures, then the video. Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California released this first-ever audio on Friday, just before Ingenuity made its fifth test flight, a short one-way trip to a new airfield. During the fourth flight a week earlier, the low hum from the helicopter blades spinning at more than 2,500 revolutions per minute is barely …

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3 years, 7 months ago

NASA releases audio clip of Mars helicopter humming through thin Martian air

India Today

First came the amazing pictures, then the video. https://t.co/TNCdXWcKWE pic.twitter.com/YwxIjupbQI — NASA JPL May 8, 2021 The low hum from the helicopter blades spinning at more than 2,500 revolutions per minute is barely audible. https://t.co/uua5h40BPL pic.twitter.com/fGWlMRpVji — NASA JPL May 7, 2021 The sound was recorded during the helicopter’s fourth test flight on April 30. Its first flight was April …

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3 years, 7 months ago

Ingenuity Helicopter snaps first aerial colour image of Mars

India TV News

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has captured the first color image of the Martian surface. The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured it with its color camera during its second successful flight test on April 22, the US space agency said in a statement. The image shows a closeup of a portion of the tracks of the Perseverance Mars rover and Mars surface …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Nasa extracts breathable oxygen from thin Martian air

Live Mint

Nasa has logged another extraterrestrial first on its latest mission to Mars: converting carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into pure, breathable oxygen, the US space agency said on Wednesday. In its first activation, the toaster-sized instrument dubbed MOXIE, short for Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, produced about 5 grams of oxygen, equivalent to roughly 10 minutes' worth of …

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3 years, 8 months ago

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter climbs higher on second Mars flight

Daily Mail

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter 'went big' with its second flight, reaching new milestones with a higher altitude, flying to the side and grabbing another black-and-white photo of its shadow on the ground below. The Mars Helicopter successfully completed its 2nd flight,' adding that it 'reached new milestones of a higher altitude, a longer hover, and lateral flying' The US space …

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3 years, 8 months ago

NASA's Mars helicopter takes flight, 1st for another planet

India Today

NASA’s experimental helicopter Ingenuity rose into the thin air above the dusty red surface of Mars on Monday, achieving the first powered flight by an aircraft on another planet. I don’t think I can ever stop watching it over and over again.” Flight controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California declared success after receiving the data and images via …

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3 years, 8 months ago

NASA’s Mars helicopter takes flight, 1st for another planet

India TV News

NASA’s experimental Mars helicopter rose from the dusty red surface into the planet’s thin air on Monday, achieving the first powered flight on another planet. “Altimeter data confirms that Ingenuity has performed its first flight, the first flight of a powered aircraft on another planet,” said the helicopter’s chief pilot back on Earth, Havard Grip, his voice breaking as his …

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Nasa's first aircraft investigation outside Earth: What killed Ingenuity on Mars?

Mangalyaan-2: Why India needs to go to Mars

NASA's Mars helicopter says goodbye: Check Top 5 videos to relive its history

Humans are already trashing Mars - despite never setting foot on it: Shocking map reveals the 15,694lbs of space junk piling up on the Red Planet including crashed spacecraft and discarded drill bits

UFO on Mars? When NASA's ‘Marscopter’ unveiled photos of 'otherworldly' wreckage on the red planet

Scientists pick stash site for Mars soil samples collected by Perseverance rover

NASA’s Plan to Get Ingenuity Through the Martian Winter

Mars Ingenuity helicopter is on borrowed time as it endures winter

Mayday…mayday: Ingenuity loses signals as Mars get cold, helicopter calls home for help

Nasa’s Mars helicopter completes record breaking flight

Ingenuity helicopter to keep flying on Mars till Sept, identify spots to land future missions

A year after landing on Mars, Perseverance rover sets sights on intriguing new target

Vacation on Mars: Earth to lose contact with Red Planet; rovers, landers to take a break due to solar conjunction

NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter captures 3D view of rock-covered mound on Martian surface

These coloured pictures from Ingenuity helicopter offer new insights into unseen Martian world

CNSA's Zhurong rover, lander click selfie with dusty Martian surface in the background

From creating oxygen to watching first flight: All about Perseverance rover's first 100 days on Mars

Nasa captures sound of chopper blades on Mars

NASA releases audio clip of Mars helicopter humming through thin Martian air

Ingenuity Helicopter snaps first aerial colour image of Mars

Nasa extracts breathable oxygen from thin Martian air

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter climbs higher on second Mars flight

NASA's Mars helicopter takes flight, 1st for another planet

NASA’s Mars helicopter takes flight, 1st for another planet