The helicopter covered a distance of 704 meters at a speed of 5.5 meters per second🧐
slowly rose to an altitude of three meters above the surface of Mars, hovered for 30 seconds, and then descended to land on its four legs.Since then, the mini-helicopter has flown many flights on the Red Planet, but it is still breaking some records. On Friday, NASA announced Ingenuity's black-and-white navigation camera had provided incredible video footage of its record-breaking 25th flight.
The video clip shows powerful visuals beginning about one second into the flight. Ingenuity can be seen reaching an altitude of 10 meters when the aircraft starts to head southwest while accelerating to its maximum speed in less than three seconds. Even though it is in black and white, you can clearly see the group of sand ripples that appear about halfway through the video and that Ingenuity hovers over. The chopper continues to fly until it spots relatively flat and featureless terrain where it can properly land on. The whole flight lasted 161.3-seconds, but the video was speeded up approximately five times, reducing it to less than 35 seconds.The video, however, does not seem to follow the hovercraft as it lands.
Ingenuity flies autonomously and has to go through several channels to communicate with Earth. First, it reaches out to a helicopter base station aboard the Mars Perseverance rover. The rover then transmits the data to the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter , which then beams the data to NASA's satellites. Finally, the DSN relays the information down to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Earth, California.Stay ahead with the latest science, technology and innovation news, for free:
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