NASA’s Mars Helicopter Solo made its third successful test flight to Mars in a week on Sunday (25), and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) later announced the news in a Twitter post, saying it flew faster and farther than the previous two flights.
This time, Solo flew a total of 100 meters at a speed of 2 meters per second, far exceeding the speed and distance of the last two test flights.
It first rose to 5 meters above the ground at 1:31 a.m. PST, then flew 50 meters northward before returning to the landing site, with a total flight time of 80 seconds, and took the first black-and-white aerial photographs of Mars.
The entire test flight process has been captured by the Mars Rover Perseverance on the ground of Mars, and it is expected that the short film can be transmitted back to Earth within a few days. Researchers said the test flight is a breakthrough in the flight and filming capabilities of Solo, as Solo failed to move more than 0.5 meters in the vacuum during tests on Earth, they can not know whether the navigation camera can fly farther and faster to capture the surface of Mars, they are eagerly awaiting this latest batch of images.
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