NASA’s tiny helicopter Ingenuity successfully flew on Mars early Monday, marking the first powered flight on another world and dubbed “our Wright Brothers’ moment” by a top engineer.

The four-pound (1.8-kilogram) rotorcraft took off at 3:34 a.m. Eastern Time (0734 GMT), hovered 10 feet (three meters) above the Martian surface for 39.1 seconds, and then came to a stop.

The autonomous flight’s data and photos were sent 173 million miles (278 million kilometers) back to Earth, where they were received by NASA’s network of ground antennas and processed about three hours later.

Engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, where the project had been designed and planned for the past six years, were tensely watching their screens.

They erupted in applause when one of them read off a list of accomplishments made by Ingenuity, concluding, “Ingenuity has completed its first flight — the first flight of a powered aircraft on another world.”

Ingenuity easily returned a black-and-white snapshot of its bug-like shadow cast on the surface from its downward-pointing navigation camera

https://www.774ngr.com/2021/04/19/nasas-mars-helicopter-succeeds-in-historic-first-flight/

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Science is breaking barriers! This is massive.

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