Tiny helicopter Ingenuity is set to make history this weekend, as it is about to become the first aircraft to be flown on another planet.
Tiny helicopter Ingenuity is set to make history this weekend, as it is about to become the first aircraft to be flown on another planet. The plucky Mars explorer has been dropped off by its rover buddy Perseverance and is preparing for a test flight on Sunday morning. The data about the mission should be received by NASA early on Monday morning, in an event that will be livestreamed so you can watch along. NASA will be livestreaming coverage of the team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) as they receive the first data from the flight attempt. The flight itself is scheduled for Sunday, April 11 at 12:30 p.m. local Mars solar time (10:54 p.m. ET,7:54 p.m. PT). Then it will take several hours for the data to be processed and transmitted from Mars to Earth. The JPL team expects to receive the first data early in the morning of Monday, April 12, at around 4:15 a.m. ET (1:15 a.m. PT). The livestream will begin at 3:30 a.
