The Mars helicopter has only been communicating with NASA scientists intermittently for the past few days, making it difficult for the Ingenuity team to perform another flight. The helicopter was only supposed to fly five times. Still, it has already surpassed the parameters of this first mission, taking to the skies for the 50th time…
The 50th flight was made to reach Airfield Mu, a flight of 322 meters at a speed of 4.6 meters per second, 18 meters above the Martian soil on April 13. It took a total of 145.7 seconds. NASA’s analysis of records from the flight log Ingenuity includes: In a blog post celebrating the 50th…
The ice floe is no longer there, but scientists have detected remains among other mineral deposits near Mars’ equatorial region. The deposits here often contain light colored sulfate salts. When the scientists took a closer look, they observed the characteristics of a glacier with debris being deposited or pushed by a moving glacier. The research…