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Ingenuity Undertook Its 8th Flight on Red Planet

Ingenuity Undertook Its 8th Flight on Red Planet

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Why in news?

  • Most recent flight was made by Ingenuity to Mars was on June 21, 2021.
  • During the flight, Ingenuity remained aloft for 77.4 seconds.
  • It flew 525 feet and landed about 440 feet away from Perseverance rover.
  • Ingenuity was originally designed to fly only five times.
  • But its steady successes made agency to extend its mission and experiment with more ambitious flights.

 

What is Ingenuity?

  • Ingenuity is a small robotic helicopter which is operating on Mars under NASA’s Mars 2020 mission.
  • It successfully completed first powered controlled flight by an aircraft on a planet besides Earth on April 19, 2021.
  • As of June 22, it has successfully completed eight flights.
  • A solar-charged battery-powered coaxial drone rotorcraft is serving as a technology and operations demonstration which will help in flying probes on future missions to Mars.
  • Ingenuity was built by Jet Propulsion Laboratory QPL) of NASA.
  • It travelled to Mars attached to underside of Perseverance rover.

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