2023-10-18 11:51:06
MADRID, 18 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter on Mars completed its 62nd flight, setting a new speed record by reaching 10 meters per second (approximately 36 kilometers per hour).
The previous speed record was 8 meters per second, achieved on September 25 on flight number 60.
This deployment of the first controlled-flight powered aircraft to another world It occurred on October 12. It covered a distance of 268 meters at about 18 meters above the ground and lasted 121 seconds. Its takeoff and landing point was the so-called Tau airfield, in the Jezero crater, NASA reports.
The aircraft, which contributes with its images to plan Perseverance’s surface exploration, totals 13.9 kilometers traveled during 112.9 minutes of flight in the tenuous atmosphere of Mars, which has less than 1 percent the density of Earth’s.
Ingenuity is half a meter tall and weighs 1.8 kilos. It has six lithium-ion batteries that are charged with solar energy. Its four carbon fiber blades are arranged in two rotors that spin in opposite directions at around 2,400 rpm, much faster than a helicopter on Earth.
Its job is to support the research mission of the Perseverance rover.
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