NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter unlocked its blades, allowing them to spin freely, on April 7, 2021, the 47th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. This image was captured by the Mastcam-Z imager aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover on the following sol, April 8, 2021. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
open view of as much of the sky as possible. Make sure you are able to keep warm and arm yourself with a warm drink! Astronomy News - Touchdown for Ingenuity On the 4th of April, having travelled 471 million kilometres to Mars on board the NASA Perseverance Rover, the small helicopter craft named Ingenuity completed its journey to the surface of the red planet by dropping from the base of the rover a final 4 inches. Then on the 19th of April history was made again on the red planet. The tiny helicopter made its very first proper flight. It took off,
rose to a height of around three feet, hovered and landed again safely on the surface of Mars. The first controlled flight on another planet. Information about the helicopter's flights, observed and imaged by the Rover, can be found online via the NASA website at www.nasa.gov/nasalive. This is a great place to view NASA's many space events, images and videos from Mars and, for example, events on the NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover acquired this International Space Station, where image using its left Mastcam-Z camera. Mastcam-Z is a pair of cameras located high on the rover’s Frenchman Thomas Pesquet is mast. This is one still frame from a sequence currently Commander. Happy stargazing and Clear Skies!
captured by the camera while taking video. This image was acquired on Apr. 22, 2021. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS
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