first to show it was potential to fly in a simulated Mars atmosphere
BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s aerial prototype is seen on the Smithsonian Nationwide Air and Area Museum’s Steve F. Udvar-Hazy Heart in Chantilly, Va, December 15, 2023.
The prototype, the primary to show it was potential to fly in a simulated Mars atmosphere at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was donated to the museum.
Ingenuity’s history-making mission on Mars lately ended after a number of of its rotor blades sustained injury throughout touchdown, rendering it incapable of flight.
Initially designed as a know-how demonstration to carry out as much as 5 experimental take a look at flights over 30 days, the primary plane on one other world operated from the Martian floor for nearly three years, carried out 72 flights and flew greater than 14 occasions farther than deliberate whereas logging greater than two hours of whole flight time.
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