Ingenuity: NASA's First Mars Helicopter in Flight | Perseverance Rover Mission

Ingenuity: NASA's First Mars Helicopter in Flight | Perseverance Rover Mission

Watch the first aircraft in history making powered and controlled flights on another planet. This video reconstructs the 47th take-off of Ingenuity, as seen by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover in Jezero Crater during sol 729. The video is in real time (frames were reconstructed by active interpolation via AI from the original 6.5 per second to 60), exactly as it would have appeared to an observer on Mars. The audio portion comes from a recording made by Perseverance during a take-off of Ingenuity back in 2021.

Learn more about Ingenuity:

go.nasa.gov/ingenuity

Ingenuity Fact Sheet:

https://mars.nasa.gov/files/mars2020/MarsHelicopterIngenuity_FactSheet.pdf

Mars Helicopter Name: Ingenuity

Main Job: A technology demonstration to test the first powered flight on Mars. The helicopter rode to Mars attached to the belly of the Perseverance rover.

Launch: July 30, 2020, Cape Canaveral, Florida

Landed: Feb. 18, 2021, Jezero Crater, Mars

Length of Mission: Technology demonstration complete; transitioned to new operations demo phase

The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA's Moon to Mars exploration approach, which includes Artemis missions to the Moon that will help prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which is managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, California, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover.

Mission Name: Mars 2020

Rover Name: Perseverance

Main Job: Seek signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and regolith (broken rock and soil) for possible return to Earth.

For more about Perseverance:

mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/

nasa.gov/perseverance

Video Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/PipploIMP

Release Date: March 9, 2023

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