When Mars helicopter Ingenuity was packed off on a one-way trip to the red planet, its engineers had a plan for five flights.
helicopter Ingenuity was packed off on a one-way trip to the red planet, its engineers had a plan for five flights.
, and the little helicopter that could has now blown past its initial objectives: It completed a milestone 25 flights in the thin, tenuous Martian atmosphere., but Flight 25 was an absolute corker. On 8 April, when the flight took place, Ingenuity broke records for both distance and speed, soaring 704 meters and up to 5.5 meters per second .
"For our record-breaking flight, Ingenuity's downward-looking navigation camera provided us with a breathtaking sense of what it would feel like gliding 33 feet above the surface of Mars at 12 miles per hour,"The duration of the flight was 161.3 seconds, but the helicopter didn't start taking images until about one second in.
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