Ingenuity’s First Flight Recorded by Mastcam-Z: The primary flight of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter – and the primary powered, managed flight on one other planet – was captured on this picture from Mastcam-Z, a pair of zoomable cameras aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, on April 19, 2021.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU.
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It’s now mud season and winter on Mars, that means there’s extra mud within the air and fewer daylight to assist recharge Ingenuity’s batteries. Mud ranges are anticipated to subside later in July, so the staff has determined to offer the helicopter’s batteries a break for a couple of weeks and construct their day by day state of cost again up. Climate allowing, Ingenuity is anticipated to be again within the air across the begin of August.
