NASA JPL shared a tweet with a selfie taken by the Mars Ingenuity helicopter. The photo was broken at the eighth flight of helicopter test on Monday this week. Although NASA shared a mine of details on the eighth test flight, which it said is that the helicopter stole 77.4 seconds over a distance of 160 meters.
After the short flight, the ingenuity landed in a new square about 133.5 meters from the Rover of Perseverance. The image is interesting and shows the shadow of ingenuity as it stole through the surface of March. The image shows the dual ends of the frozen helicopter and very similar to the wings of a dragonfly.
Things were going well for the helicopter of ingenuity after suffering a significant problem during his sixth trial flight. On this flight, there was a problem with a single image of the images taken by the navigation cameras on board the lost spacecraft, causing the helicopter being unable to determine where it was exactly and becoming unstable. Fortunately, ingenuity has been able to land safely and continue its operations.
NASA celebrated the seventh helicopter test flight earlier this month, and this flight was extinguished without hitch. NASA has extensive test operations for the March ingenuity helicopter in a new step, and many test flights will be performed. NASA is currently conducting tests to see how missions using theft can be carried out in the future.
With the success of the helicopter on the surface of March so far, this will not be a surprise if most Mars’ missions and missions potentially missions to other planets include rotorcraft. While flying on the surface of March rather than rolling like a rover, ingenuity can cover more mass faster, potentially developing the area it can investigate.