Third flight.
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Link to video
"NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter takes off and lands in this video captured on April 25, 2021, by Mastcam-Z, an imager aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. As expected, the helicopter flew out of its field of vision while completing a flight plan that took it 164 feet (50 meters) downrange of the landing spot. Keep watching, the helicopter will return to stick the landing. Top speed for today's flight was about 2 meters per second, or about 4.5 miles-per-hour."
No sign of Matt Damon, from what I understand.
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that is very cool. I was read about how because of the very "thin" air, that they were not sure it would be able to fly. Neat stuff.
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that is very cool. I was read about how because of the very "thin" air, that they were not sure it would be able to fly. Neat stuff.
@taiwan_girl said in Third flight.:
because of the very "thin" air, that they were not sure it would be able to fly.
Testing that would be trivial on Earth - pressure chamber.
The tricky part would be maneuverability, I would think.
Also, we have entered the phase of flight where all the 'testing' is done on a computer before the first prototype is built. I'm sure NASA did the same thing.
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that is very cool. I was read about how because of the very "thin" air, that they were not sure it would be able to fly. Neat stuff.
@taiwan_girl said in Third flight.:
I was read about how because of the very "thin" air, that they were not sure it would be able to fly.
NASA had a diverse team working on this, there was never any doubt.
