NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter turned the primary automobile to realize powered, managed flight on one other planet when it took to the Martian skies on April 19, 2021. This video maps the situation of the 72 flights that the helicopter took over the course of practically three years. Ingenuity far surpassed expectations — hovering larger and quicker than beforehand imagined.
Designed to be a know-how demonstration that may make not more than 5 check flights in 30 days, Ingenuity ultimately flew greater than 14 instances farther than the space anticipated, and logged greater than two hours of complete flight time. It flew for the ultimate time on Jan. 18, 2024.
For extra info on Ingenuity, go to: go.nasa.gov/ingenuity.
Credit score: NASA/JPL-Caltech
