On April 25, at 11:31 am Kiev time, the Ingenuity mini-helicopter made the third ever flight in the atmosphere of Mars, this time with an impressive lateral movement, and not just ascent / landing with minimal lateral movement.
Ingenuity’s two previous flights – 39 and 52 seconds – took place on April 19 and 22, respectively.
Yesterday, the drone climbed to a height of 4.9 m, flew northward by 50 m (flying out of the field of view of the Mastcam-Z camera of the Perseverance Mars rover, which was filming its “exercises” from a distance), and then returned to the starting point of flight.
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The maximum horizontal movement speed was ~ 2 m / s.
The drone took a photo of its shadow below:
The vacuum chambers for testing at NASA’s Jet Flight Laboratory are filled with an “analog” of thin Martian air, but they are too cramped to travel more than half a meter in any direction. Because of this, the engineers were eagerly awaiting how the Ingenuity handles real side flight.
The second color photo from the drone down and the first – in flight:
In the fourth flight, the helicopter is planned to be raised by 80 s and sent to a distance of ~ 100 m.
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