Posted on 09/23/2022 11:01:56 AM PDT by Ezekiel
ASA's Ingenuity helicopter has flown again, taking to the Martian skies for the second time in as many weeks.
Ingenuity traveled about 308 feet (94 meters) on Sunday (Sept. 18), staying aloft for more than 55 seconds and reaching a maximum speed of 10.6 mph (17.1 kph), according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory(opens in new tab) (JPL) in Southern California, which manages the Mars helicopter's mission.
Sunday's flight was the 32nd for Ingenuity overall and its second this month; the 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) rotorcraft also lifted off on Sept. 6.
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I looked in the past. I could not find them.
Good to see something, but in this day and age they need to be in color. This is not 1969.
“...they need to be in color...”
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That might be in color.
Ain’t a whole lot of ‘color’ on Mars.
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