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NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity takes off on historic 1st powered flight on another world

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https://www.space.com/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-first-flight-success

The aerial exploration of Mars has begun.

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter lifted off on the Red Planet early this morning (April 19), performing the first-ever powered flight on a world beyond Earth.

The 4-lb. (1.8 kilograms) chopper was scheduled to rise from the floor of Mars' Jezero Crater at 12:31 a.m. EDT (0431 GMT) today, get a maximum of 10 feet (3 meters) above the red dirt and land after roughly 40 seconds aloft.

At about 6:15 a.m. EDT (1015 GMT), data came down from Ingenuity — via its much larger partner, NASA's Perseverance rover — that the little rotorcraft had hit its marks. The first photo from Ingenuity showed the helicopter's shadow on the Martian surface below, while Perseverance captured stunning video of the historic flight on Mars.

"Ingenuity has performed its first flight, the first flight of a powered aircraft on another planet!" Ingenuity's chief pilot HÃ¥vard Grip said as he confirmed telemetry at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.


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I like this post because it's incredible how people can build helicopters or other machines that can explore through other planets and try to find if there's any other type of life on that planet or how that planet is. This is the first powered flight on another plant but since science and technology are changing a lot and better, it will be more in the future.


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