2023-07-01 03:54:15
This image shows a demonstration of NASA’s Perseverance rover landing safely on Mars. (Photo provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech) LOS ANGELES, June 30, 2023 (Xinhua) — NASA announced Friday that NASA’s “Ingenuity” helicopter is on Mars. It regained contact with the Perseverance rover on Mars following two months of radio silence. The Ingenuity helicopter made its 52nd flight to Mars on April 26, but mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California lost contact with the helicopter during It descends to the surface for landing. The Ingenuity team expected a communications outage due to a hill standing between the helicopter landing site and the Perseverance rover site, impeding communication between the two. The probe acts as a radio relay unit between the helicopter and JPL’s mission controllers. Achieved Contact was restored on June 28 when Perseverance reached the hill and was able to see Ingenuity once more, according to NASA. If the rest of Ingenuity’s health checks are optimistic, NASA said, The helicopter may fly once more within the next two weeks. Ingenuity reached Jezero crater on Mars on February 18, 2021, and is attached to the belly of the Perseverance rover. This helicopter is a technological experimental unit to experience the first flight of a motorized vehicle on another planet.■
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