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Mars Ingenuity helicopter

April 29, 2022
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In news- NASA’S Ingenuity helicopter flying for the 26th time on Mars has spotted the wreckage of gear that helped it land on Mars.

Key findings-

  • After spending a year exploring the rocks of the crater it landed in, the Perseverance rover passed near its landing site on its way to a river delta that once flowed along the western rim of the crater. 
  • The rover’s small robotic companion, the helicopter Ingenuity, continues to tag along.
  • The helicopter has spotted the cocoon that safely got it to the surface of the Red Planet. 
  • During its 26th hop on the alien world, the quadcopter located and captured the wreckage of both the parachute and the cone-shaped back shell.
  • While the backshell protected the rover in deep space and during its fiery descent towards the Martian surface acting as a heat shield, the parachute slowed it down before the crane dropped the Perseverance rover on the surface. 
  • Ingenuity captured 10 coloured aerial images of the wreckage on the surface of Mars, which is now a human-made space junk on another planet.

About the helicopter–

  • Ingenuity, nicknamed Ginny, is a small robotic helicopter operating on Mars as part of NASA’s Mars 2020 mission along with the Perseverance rover, which landed on February 18, 2021. 
  • Two months later, on April 19, Ingenuity successfully completed the first powered controlled extraterrestrial flight by an aircraft—taking off vertically, hovering, and landing, for a flight duration of 39.1 seconds.
  • It was designed and built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
  • It is operated by solar-charged batteries that power dual counter-rotating rotors mounted one above the other.
  • It carries a piece of fabric from the wing of the 1903 Wright Flyer, the Wright Brothers’ airplane used in the first controlled powered heavier-than-air flight on Earth.
  • Ingenuity’s initial take-off and landing area is named Wright Brothers Field as a tribute.
  • Before Ingenuity, the first flight of any kind on a planet beyond Earth was an unpowered balloon flight on Venus by the Soviet Vega 1 spacecraft in 1985.
  • It has got a mission extension on Mars after completing nearly a year-long mission.
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