Of all the small space robots scattered in space at the moment, Ingenuity, NASA’s Mars helicopter is probably my favorite. He has far exceeded his original mission goals and is now buzzing around like an alien mosquito in the red sands of Mars, enjoying the thrill of flying to another world.
On Saturday, NASA released the latest video from Ingenuity, which allows you to experience these thrills on your own.
During Ingenuity’s 25th flight, on April 18, the little propeller could certainly do it. The autonomous flight covered a distance of 2,310 feet – about 6.5 football fields – at a speed of 12 miles per hour. It was a record-breaker that became the fastest and longest flight so far (although, based on how well it performed on Mars, expect this record to be broken as well (excluding hexadecimal)) and the whole thing was recorded with helicopter, face down camera.
You can see the video below:
“For our record-breaking flight, Ingenuity’s downward-looking navigation camera gave us a breathtaking sense of what it would be like to glide 33 feet above the surface of Mars at 12 miles per hour,” said Teddy Tsanetos, who leads Ingenuity’s team. from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
Ginny, as she is affectionately called, recently experienced a brief bout of silence after entering a state of low power, almost ready to fly again. His next flight will be the 29th. Not bad for a helicopter that only had to make five flights in 30 days. Maybe next time he’ll even find a secret door.
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