The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s Mars exploration helicopter ‘Ingenuity’ set the longest-distance flight record during its recent 69th flight to Mars, IT media Digital Trends reported on the 21st (local time).
NASA Mars Helicopter ‘Ingenuity’ (Photo = NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU)
Ingenuity flew a distance of 705m on the 20th, breaking the record of 704m, the highest driving distance recorded for the 25th flight in April last year. Ingenuity’s flight time for this flight was 135.4 seconds. Last week, Ingenuity flew a distance of 702 meters across the surface of Mars.
The surface of Mars taken by Ingenuity during its 69th flight on the 20th (Photo = NASA JPL X)
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which manages and supervises the Mars exploration mission, recently said through “It is planned,” he said.
Ingenuity, which landed in Jezero Crater with the Mars exploration rover ‘Perseverance’ in February 2021, succeeded in the first powered flight on an extra-Earth planet in April of the same year, and continued by declaring a mission extension in March of last year. So we are making history.
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Ingenuity stayed in the air on Mars for a total of 125.5 minutes, flew a distance of about 16.7 km, and reached a maximum altitude of 24 m.
With the success of Ingenuity, NASA is accelerating research on extraterrestrial exploration helicopters. NASA plans to deploy two helicopters similar to Ingenuity on a future Mars Lander mission to retrieve samples collected by Perseverance from Mars.
