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A small robotic plane, Ingenuity, took off from the planet’s surface in about 10 hours. 30 minutes. Lithuanian time.
The flight lasted only 30 seconds: the unit climbed to a height of about 3 meters and landed successfully. Information about the successful flight reached NASA scientists after about two hours.
Images of the first flight were captured by both the cameras installed on the plane and the nearby Perseverance.
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According to NASA engineers, four more such flights are planned to test the aircraft’s capabilities in the extremely rare atmosphere of Mars.
One of them is to fly a distance of about 50 meters and return to the starting point.
The Ingenuity plane flew to Mars along with the Perseverance Martian on February 18 of this year. NASA engineers expect tests of the aircraft to be completed within 30 days of Mars.
85 million The NASA toy, which costs US dollars, is only intended to test the possibilities of a motorized plane in the atmosphere of Mars.
Photo from NASA
Later, the Martian Perseverance will leave the plane and travel further afield to explore the lake’s crater, where it will search for traces of past or present life on Mars.
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