NASA has revealed that, almost a year since its historic first flight, the Ingenuity helicopter has set two new records on Mars.
During what the mission team described as Ingenuity’s “most ambitious flight” among its 25 trips to date, the 4-pound, 19-inch-high helicopter flew a distance of 2,324.2 feet , smashing its previous record of 2,072.8 feet by 251.4 feet .
Ingenuity’s record-breaking flight took place on Friday, April 8, though the mission team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is overseeing the mission, waited until Tuesday to share the news. The 25th helicopter flight takes Ingenuity closer to its next destination: A delta inside the Jezero Crater that could contain evidence of ancient microbial life. The Perseverance rover is also heading to the same place, carrying with it a suite of tools for examination of rocks and soil in the area.
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