“NASA plans no earlier than Monday, April 19, to make the first flight of its Ingenuity helicopter on Mars at about 12:30 p.m. PT,” the agency said.
It is noted that the data on the first flight of Ingenuity will arrive on Earth a few hours after the autonomous flight. If the first flight of the helicopter takes place, then NASA will hold a briefing on its results.
The first flight of Ingenuity in the space agency is called very risky, since the main problem is that the atmosphere on Mars is very rarefied – less than 1% of the pressure of the Earth’s atmosphere.
The Ingenuity helicopter arrived on the Red Planet along with the Perseverance rover, which landed on 18 February.
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