NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter on Mars, snapped by the Perseverance rover
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A bit helicopter lastly met its finish this 12 months. NASA’s Ingenuity drone made its 72nd and last flight on Mars in January, damaging one in all its rotors on touchdown, concluding probably the most uncommon area exploration experiments in latest many years.
Having reached the surface of Mars on the Perseverance rover in 2021, the drone flew missions autonomously as a result of the lengthy delay in radio transmissions between Earth and Mars made direct management not possible.…
