NASA Ingenuity Helicopter Aims At The Damage That Brought It To Mars

KOMPAS.com – Helicopter NASA Ingenuity snapped a photo of the wreckage of the used parachute and the back shell of the device that brought it to Planet Marsis in a state of disrepair.

Unprecedented image, looks like a scene from an apocalyptic sci-fi film, dating from the 19th flight helicopter small on April 26 last.

The photo shows protective equipment helicopter Ingenuity NASA and rover Perseverance when it comes down to the surface Mars on February 18, 2021.

NASA scientists hope the images help understand how the plane landed and inspire future improvements to the process.

The hope is that future missions to Mars can return samples collected by the Perseverance rover to Earth.

“The best-documented Mars landing in history, with cameras showing everything from parachute inflation to landing,” said former Perseverance systems engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Ian Clark, in a statement. Live ScienceFriday (29/4/2022).

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However, the image or photo of the wreckage taken by NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter offers a different perspective.

If it confirms that the system works as thought or provides a dataset of engineering information that can be used for planning the return of a Mars sample, this would be great.

“And otherwise, the images are still phenomenal and inspiring,” explains Clark.

The image of the debris on the surface of Mars was taken from a height of about 8 meters above the ground. The Intelligence took off at 11:37 am local Martian time, and flew for 159 seconds.

During that time, the helicopter traveled 1,181 feet (360 meters) and took 10 photos.

“To get the required shot (of the surface of Mars), (NASA helicopter) Ingenuity performs a lot of maneuvers,” said Ingenuity’s chief pilot at JPL Håvard Grip.

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