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Hyderabad An Alabama high school student named NASA’s first Mars helicopter to be deployed to the Red Planet later this year.
The mill, named after Vaneera Rupani, was selected for the 4-pound (1.8-kilogram) solar-powered helicopter, NASA said in a statement. The nickname was submitted by Rupani, a third-year student at Tuscaloosa County High School in Northport, was one of 28,000 names submitted during the NASA “Name the Rover” essay contest for students from across the United States. .
Our Mars helicopter has a new name! Meet: wit.
Student Vaneeza Rupani came up with the name during our “name the rover” contest. Wit will travel to the red planet with @NASAPersevere try the first powered flight in another world: https://t.co/4bGj3morKP pic.twitter.com/2ZyIm4sQRQ
– NASA (@NASA) April 29, 2020
Given that the rover was recently named Perseverance, NASA thought it was appropriate for the helicopter to have a name too. NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announced that Rupani came up with an appropriate name: Ingenio. NASA’s Mars helicopter will travel to the Red Planet connected to the belly of the Mars 2020 rover, Perseverance, currently slated for launch in July or August this year.
“The ingenuity and brilliance of people who work hard to overcome the challenges of interplanetary travel are what allow us all to experience the wonders of space exploration,” Rupani wrote. “Ingenuity allows us to expand our horizons to the edges of the universe.”
About the helicopter
The helicopter will be the first plane to fly on another planet. It’s a small device: The small rotor boat weighs only 1.8 kg (4 lbs) and is made of lightweight materials like carbon fiber and aluminum.
The small drone helicopter will be deployed in 2021 from the Perseverance rover planned as part of the Mars 2020 mission. It is expected to fly up to five times during its 30-day test campaign. Each flight will not take more than 3 minutes, at altitudes ranging from 3 to 10 m above the ground. It could potentially cover a distance of up to 980 feet (300 m) per flight.
The 4-pound raft has no other instruments on board as it is essentially a demonstrator that will establish the design and development of future air exploration ships to assist with the study of Mars.
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