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| Mars helicopter Ingenuity sends last message to Earth |
| 2024-04-18 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The Mars helicopter Ingenuity has sent its final message to Earth before it becomes a test bed on the surface of the Red Planet. The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced this on its website on April 16. It is noted that the engineers who worked on the creation of Ingenuity gathered for the last time on April 16 in the control room of the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in order to monitor the receipt of data from the helicopter. The aircraft continued to communicate with its base station, NASA's Perseverance rover, despite the end of its mission in January 2024. The helicopter will then be used as a stationary test bed for data collection, which should benefit Mars explorers in the future. As Regnum reported, on January 21, NASA announced the loss of contact with the Martian helicopter Ingenuity. The aircraft conducted its 72nd flight over the surface of Mars on January 18 and during its approach lost contact with the Perseverance rover. Later, communication with the helicopter was restored. The resulting images showed that the helicopter had one or more rotor blades damaged. NASA announced on January 24 that the damaged Ingenuity completed its mission on Mars. It was noted that he carried out several dozen more flights than originally planned. The Ingenuity helicopter spent more than 1,000 Martian days on the surface of the Red Planet, making 72 flights. |
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