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NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Nails Its Seventh Flight on Mars
The seventh flight of NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter on Mars saw the vehicle fly nearly 106.68 m to a landing spot that hadn’t been closely surveyed beforehand.
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With Ingenuity Out of the Way, Perseverance Rover Gets Cracking on Real Martian Science
As NASA’s little helicopter whirred off to its new airfield on Mars, one could practically hear the sigh of relief from Perseverance from 294 million kilometres away; it was an exhale of “thank god they’ve gone” that comes with the departure of an attention hog. A patient rover, Perseverance has been getting all its systems…
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The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Experiment Is About to Get More Interesting
It’s not wrong to want Ingenuity to crash. The Mars helicopter getting into a dramatic accident would mean that the NASA team pushed the craft to its limits — that there’s finally a ceiling on the accomplishments of the astonishingly successful chopper. So far, Ingenuity has completed four of its five scheduled test flights on…
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NASA Generates Oxygen on Mars, Setting Stage for Crewed Missions
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has captured much of the world’s attention, but an amazing new experiment, in which the Perseverance rover produced a tiny amount of oxygen, is equally deserving of praise.