#NASA First Video of NASA Ingenuity Mars helicopter in flight Including Take-off and Landing |
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter hovers over the Martian surface – the first instance of powered, controlled flight on another planet – as viewed by the Mastcam-Z imager aboard the Perseverance Mars rover on April 19, 2021.
Flying in a controlled manner on Mars is far more difficult than flying on Earth. The Red Planet has significant gravity (about one-third that of Earth’s), but its atmosphere is just 1% as dense as Earth’s at the surface.
Stitched together from multiple images, the mosaic is not white balanced; instead, it is displayed in a preliminary calibrated version of a natural-color composite, approximately simulating the colors of the scene as it would appear on Mars.
Arizona State University in Tempe leads the operations of the Mastcam-Z instrument, working in collaboration with Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego.
The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was built by JPL, which also manages this technology demonstration project for NASA Headquarters. It is supported by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, and Space Technology Mission Directorate. NASA’s Ames Research Center and Langley Research Center provided significant flight performance analysis and technical assistance during Ingenuity’s development.
A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet's geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust).
Subsequent NASA missions, in cooperation with ESA (European Space Agency), would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these sealed samples from the surface and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis.
The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA's Moon to Mars exploration approach, which includes Artemis missions to the Moon that will help prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet.
JPL, which is managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, California, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover.
For more about Perseverance go to: mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/ or nasa.gov/perseverance.
-
6:48
One Bite Pizza Reviews
1 day agoBarstool Pizza Review - Christo's Restaurant & Bar (Wallingford, CT)
4.52K24 -
28:25
Degenerate Plays
1 hour agoAll Bricked Up - Call Of Duty Modern Warfare Remastered : Part 9
4401 -
LIVE
WeAreChange
1 hour agoTRAINWRECK AHEAD: Biden Economy Veered Off The Tracks, COLLAPSE Is Next!
1,814 watching -
51:39
Kimberly Guilfoyle
3 hours agoNO BORDERS BIDEN, Where We Go from Here, Live with Monica Crowley & Jaime Florez | Ep. 135
22.1K29 -
43:19
Game On!
2 hours agoJJ Redick land Laker's job, Patriots pay their young RB, and Dave Portnoy fed up with his employees
2.19K1 -
16:37
Scammer Payback
1 day agoHere's the Scammer's Location 👉 (28°34'05.1"N 77°24'00.9"E)
51.6K35 -
1:11:56
Battleground with Sean Parnell
6 hours agoDeep State Cover Up w/ Tony Shaffer
4.08K6 -
2:01:31
Revenge of the Cis
3 hours agoEpisode 1341 White Girl Summer
30.9K6 -
LIVE
SwitzerlandPlayIT
5 hours agoLIVE - Retro THORsday - Blow The Ocarina! Blow It Good!
207 watching -
1:01:20
In The Litter Box w/ Jewels & Catturd
20 hours agoSCHIFFSHOW | In the Litter Box w/ Jewels & Catturd - Ep. 591 - 6/20/2024
44K35