NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter had a few months to go, losing contact with its home planet and subsequently suffering a failure that halted its flight. But you can’t keep a good helicopter. Creativity has flown over Martian terrain again as your team on Earth tries to figure out what went wrong on their previous trip.
The Mars Helicopter briefly flew for 25 hours. The second flew on Aug. 3, recording its 54th flight above the planet’s surface to provide data that could help determine why its 53rd flight ended prematurely, NASA open this week.
Flight 53 took place on July 22nd – First flight will take place after that NASA Reconnected with Creativity After 63 Days of Silence. Dexterity was supposed to fly for 136 seconds, reaching a height of 16 feet (5 meters) above the surface of Mars before descending vertically to 8 feet (2.5 meters) to capture and collect images of the rocky outcrop. Rover persistent data. The helicopter then climbed straight to 33 feet (10 meters), allowing its software to identify areas unsuitable for landing before touching down on the surface of Mars.
Unfortunately, the helicopter’s 53rd flight did not go as planned. Instead, Ingenuity flew for a full 74 seconds before the emergency flight program called “LAND_NOW , causing the helicopter to automatically descend. The program is “designed to get the helicopter to the surface as quickly as possible if any of a few dozen non-nominal scenarios are encountered,” Ingenuity’s Emeritus team leader Teddy Zanetos said in a statement.
The Ingenuity team believes that the helicopter’s emergency landing was triggered when the helicopter’s navigation camera image frames did not synchronize with data from the inertial measurement unit (which measures its rates of acceleration and rotation), according to the NASA.
However, the success of its subsequent flight gives the team confidence that the issue can be resolved by updating the flight software to help mitigate the impact of the downed footage. Creativity also snapped a photo of its rover companion during its recent trip.
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