The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) unmanned helicopter “Innovation” completed its maiden flight to Mars today, NASA said, which is another human feat after the Wright brothers.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) “Innovation Mars Helicopter” successfully made its maiden flight on Mars on the 19th. According to a report by the Central News Agency today, a video sent back by the Mars Exploration Rover Perseverance shows the 1.8 kg helicopter hovering 3 meters above the surface of Mars and then landing. Innovation also returned a black-and-white image taken by the built-in downward lens, showing the Martian helicopter flying off the ground, projected on the surface of the figure.
According to NASA, the solar-powered Ingenuity’s maiden flight on Mars is a symbol of the Wright Brothers moment for NASA in the 21st century, and also a symbol of future exploration of Mars and other planets in the solar system, such as Venus and Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. (Titan, also known as Titan) to create a new model. The Wright brothers launched a new era of flight for mankind when they flew their homemade plane in 1903.
The report said the control room erupted in joy when a NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer announced that “altimeter data confirms that the Innovation helicopter has completed its first flight, the first flight of a powered vehicle on another planet.
NASA said Innovation’s unprecedented mission was extremely risky and a major challenge because the air on Mars is thin and the atmospheric pressure is less than 1% of that on Earth.
Mimi Aung, Mars Helicopter Program Director at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said, “We can now say that humans have gotten an aircraft to fly on another planet.”
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