The US space agency NASA announced that it had regained contact with its small helicopter, Ingenuity, located on Mars after losing it for some time following an unexpected malfunction.
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The US space agency NASA announced that it had regained contact with its small helicopter, Ingenuity, located on Mars after losing it for some time following an unexpected malfunction.
The agency said, in a statement, that it was able to restore communication with the helicopter by issuing a command to the mobile robot “Perseverance” to carry out long-term listening operations to pick up the Ingenuity signal, noting that the team responsible for the helicopter is studying the new data to obtain a clearer explanation for the reason for the unexpected interruption of communication. During the 72nd sortie.
“Ingenuity”, which resembles a large drone, became in 2021 the first motorized vehicle to carry out air missions over a planet other than Earth. It was carried to the Red Planet by the “Perseverance” robot, which transmits data from it to Earth, and its mission is to search About indications of ancient life on Mars.
Communications between Ingenuity and the rover were suddenly cut off last Thursday, during the helicopter’s 72nd flight over Mars.
Last year, the US Space Agency lost contact with the Mars helicopter for longer periods of more than two months.