SkyBlueRadio First ‘space helicopter’ set to take to Martian skies
Written by Mark Pearson on February 12, 2021
First ‘space helicopter’ set to take to Martian skies
When NASA’s Perseverance rover touches down next week, it will carry one of the strangest devices ever seen on Mars — a drone destined to make the first controlled flights on an extraterrestrial planet.
Dubbed “Ingenuity,” the drone weighs just 4 pounds, and it will stay stored beneath the rover’s belly while Perseverance runs through its initial surface checks and experiments.
But about the middle of April, the rover will scout out a flat area without large rocks to deploy the drone, and soon after that Perseverance will release Ingenuity to make the first flights on Mars.
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JT On February 13, 2021 at 15:42
Great story Mark!