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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 19:23, 20 April 2021: 43 s, 1,280 × 720 (30.24 MB): Ahecht: Upload new version based on higher-bitrate version of the video posted to the NASA website.
Ingenuity, nicknamed Ginny, is an autonomous NASA helicopter that operated on Mars from 2021 to 2024 as part of the Mars 2020 mission. Ingenuity made its first flight on 19 April 2021, demonstrating that flight is possible in the extremely thin atmosphere of Mars, and becoming the first aircraft to conduct a powered and controlled extra-terrestrial flight.
Mars Exploration Program (MEP) is a long-term effort to explore the planet Mars, funded and led by NASA.Formed in 1993, MEP has made use of orbital spacecraft, landers, and Mars rovers to explore the possibilities of life on Mars, as well as the planet's climate and natural resources. [1]
NASA’s experimental Mars helicopter rose from the dusty red surface into the planet's thin air on Monday, achieving the first powered flight on another planet. The mini 4-pound (1.8-kilogram ...
Instead of a steppingstone to Mars, NASA's current lunar plan is a detour. It will derail our Mars effort, siphoning off money and engineering talent for the next two decades. If we aspire to a long-term human presence on Mars—and I believe that should be our overarching goal for the foreseeable future—we must drastically change our focus.
Following an investigation of flight 53's truncated flight plan, this pop-up ascent was designed to test software modifications and confirm the reasons for the autoland instruction on flight 53. [101] 55 August 12, 2023 at 23:09 (Sol 881) 142.9 10 m (33 ft) 265.405 m (870.75 ft) (with directional changes) 4.7 m/s (11 mph)
Shorter Mars mission plans have round-trip flight times of 400 to 450 days, [11] or under 15 months for an opposition-class expedition, but would require significantly higher energy. A fast Mars mission of 245 days (8.0 months) round trip could be possible with on-orbit staging. [12]
A Mars aircraft is a vehicle capable of sustaining powered flight in the atmosphere of Mars. So far, the Mars helicopter Ingenuity is the only aircraft [ 2 ] [ 3 ] ever to fly on Mars , completing 72 successful flights covering 17.242 km (10.714 mi) in 2 hours, 8 minutes and 48 seconds of flight time. [ 4 ]