{"id":128894,"date":"2021-04-19T16:06:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T15:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=128894"},"modified":"2024-04-08T16:50:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T16:50:03","slug":"nasas-mars-helicopter-makes-its-first-flight-on-the-red-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/nasas-mars-helicopter-makes-its-first-flight-on-the-red-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s Mars helicopter makes its first flight on the Red Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) hosted an online briefing showing footage of the Ingenuity&#8217;s maiden flight.\u00a0As planned, the helicopter rose to a height of 3 meters above the surface of Mars, hovered &#8220;in the air&#8221; for 30 seconds and sat back.\u00a0The entire flight lasted approximately 40 seconds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"div_empty_padding1\"><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe made the first ever controlled flight on another planet.\u00a0This paves the way for other aircraft that NASA will send to other planets in the solar system, \u201dsaid Ingeniuity project manager MiMi Aung.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">You wouldn\u2019t believe what I just saw.<\/p>\n<p>More images and video to come&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MarsHelicopter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MarsHelicopter<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PLapgbHeZU\">https:\/\/t.co\/PLapgbHeZU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mbiOGx4tJZ\">pic.twitter.com\/mbiOGx4tJZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NASA&#8217;s Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASAPersevere\/status\/1384104815567855626?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Ingenuity flight was carried out early in the morning Moscow time, but the data about it reached the Earth a few hours later. This historic event was recorded on its camera by the Perseverance rover. In addition, the helicopter also managed to take several pictures while it was in flight.<\/p>\n<p><span>As a reminder, Ingenuity arrived on Mars aboard the Perseverance rover.\u00a0The main task of the apparatus is to confirm or deny the possibility of flight in the rarefied atmosphere of the Red Planet.\u00a0It was originally planned to launch the helicopter on April 11, but it was postponed due to problems with engine operation.\u00a0The error turned out to be a software error, so the engineers quickly fixed it.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"div_empty_padding1\"><\/div>\n<p><span>After landing Perseverance, the helicopter was inside the rover, and last weekend NASA specialists lowered it to the surface.\u00a0The device survived a night on Mars without a heating system for the rover, and then successfully fired the engine.\u00a0The US agency is now planning longer flights of Ingenuity over Jezero Crater.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) hosted an online briefing showing footage of the Ingenuity&#8217;s maiden flight.\u00a0As planned, the helicopter rose to a height of 3 meters above the surface of Mars, hovered &#8220;in the air&#8221; for 30 seconds and sat back.\u00a0The entire flight lasted approximately 40 seconds. \u201cWe made the first ever controlled flight on [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/nasas-mars-helicopter-makes-its-first-flight-on-the-red-planet\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":128897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[805],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-128894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}