{"id":22198,"date":"2021-06-24T17:24:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T11:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ensembleias.com\/blog\/?p=22198"},"modified":"2021-07-10T12:17:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T06:47:23","slug":"ingenuity-undertook-its-8th-flight-on-red-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ensembleias.com\/blog\/ingenuity-undertook-its-8th-flight-on-red-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Ingenuity Undertook Its 8th Flight on Red Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Ingenuity Undertook Its 8th Flight on Red Planet<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>To buy our online courses:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/online.ensemble.net.in\/s\/store\">Click Here<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Most recent flight was made by Ingenuity to Mars was on June 21, 2021.<\/li>\n<li>During the flight, Ingenuity remained aloft for 77.4 seconds.<\/li>\n<li>It flew 525 feet and landed about 440 feet away from Perseverance rover.<\/li>\n<li>Ingenuity was originally designed to fly only five times.<\/li>\n<li>But its steady successes made agency to extend its mission and experiment with more ambitious flights.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is Ingenuity?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ingenuity is a small robotic helicopter which is operating on Mars under NASA&#8217;s Mars 2020 mission.<\/li>\n<li>It successfully completed first powered controlled flight by an aircraft on a planet besides Earth on April 19, 2021.<\/li>\n<li>As of June 22, it has successfully completed eight flights.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Ingenuity was built by Jet Propulsion Laboratory QPL) of NASA.<\/li>\n<li>It travelled to Mars attached to underside of Perseverance rover.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ensembleias.com\/blog\/the-pack-pakistan-afghanistan-china-and-kashmir\/\"><strong>Also Read: The PACK (Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, and Kashmir)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingenuity Undertook Its 8th Flight on Red Planet To buy our online courses:\u00a0Click Here 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. 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