Humanity’s first flight on another planet was short, but it was super sweet. On Monday, NASA shared the full video and additional photos sent …
Humanity’s first flight on another planet was short, but it was super sweet. On Monday, NASA shared the full video and additional photos sent from the Perseverance rover on Mars of its sidekick, a tiny helicopter named Ingenuity, in action. “This really is a Wright Brothers moment,” acting NASA administrator Steve Jurczyk said in a press briefing Monday. The solar-powered,4-pound (1.8 kilogram) aircraft lifted off the floor of Jezero Crater at 12:34 a.m. PT (3:34 a.m. ET), climbed to a height of 10 feet (3 meters), made a 96-degree turn in the air and maintained a stable hover for 30 seconds. It then touched down in almost the exact same spot after 39 total seconds of flight. The whole thing is captured in the above video recorded in 1,280×720 resolution by the Mastcam-Z camera on Perseverance from the rover’s vantage point about 211 feet (64.
