NASA successfully filmed its flight cleverness A helicopter, which is now preparing for its twenty-ninth flight on the red planet.
NASA originally counted only 4-5 flights on an unmanned helicopter weighing just 1.8 kilograms, but its versatility exceeded all expectations. The recording, now released by NASA, comes from the helicopter’s 25th flight, which is also special because this time the structure also broke its own distance and speed record. The cleverness It flew at a height of 10 meters, covered 704 meters at a time, and flew at a speed of 19 kilometers per hour – Writes The space. The total flight took 161.3 seconds.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) states that the approximately 30-second recording begins about a second into the flight, and we can see the helicopter reach its maximum speed as it travels southwest over sandy sea and rocks. The video was sped up about five times by the researchers to roughly fit the entire flight into a half-minute video.
The cleverness helicopter perseverance He reached Mars in February of last year March 2020 With the aim of finding out if structures with a similar structure could fly on Mars.
Last month, his companion, the persevering rover, also set a record on the Red Planet. The former Opportunity managed to travel a maximum of 219 meters in a day, but persistence achieved 319 meters in 24 hours in April. Researchers believe that the rover is constantly evolving, so it is expected that it will break more and more records.
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