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Apr 19, 2021 · The demonstration saw the Mars-copter rise to just over 3m, hover, swivel 96 degrees, hover some more, and then set down. In all, it managed almost 40 seconds of flight, from take-off to landing.
The helicopter's longer-than-expected flying career lasted into a seasonal change on Mars. This lowered the atmospheric density, which required higher rotor speed for flight: probably 2700 rpm, according to the flight team's calculations.
Apr 8, 2024 · Up to 15 feet (5 meters) Flight environment. Thin atmosphere, less than 1 percent as dense as Earth's. NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter extends vertically into place after being rotated outward from its horizontal position on the belly of the Perseverance rover on March 29, 2021.
- Feb. 18, 2021, Jezero Crater, Mars
Sep 19, 2023 · NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter soared higher than it ever before over the weekend, getting 66 feet (20 meters) above the ground on its 59th Red Planet flight.
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- Mike Wall
Apr 19, 2021 · That first flight will be low and brief; the solar-powered Mars helicopter Ingenuity is expected to get no higher than 10 feet (3 meters) above the floor of Mars' Jezero Crater and stay...
Dec 10, 2021 · The helicopter has lifted itself a maximum of 12 meters above the Martian surface, zipped along at up to five meters per second (about half as fast as record-setting sprinter Florence...
Apr 5, 2021 · When NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida later this summer, an innovative experiment will ride along: the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. Ingenuity may weigh only about 4 pounds (1.8 kilograms), but it has some outsize ambitions.
