NASA’s Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, took stunning photos showing the landing gear of the self-delivering spacecraft and the Persevere rover on Mars in February 2021, engadged reports.
Specifically, the image shows the neglected rear envelope and supersonic parachute, and a NASA aircraft similar to this image took the images from a height of 26 feet (8 meters) during its 26th flight to Mars on April 19, 2022.
With the Creativity attached to its lower bed, NASA’s Perseverance rover took off on Mars in dramatic fashion last year and the rover’s canopy and rear cover were dumped about 1.3 miles (2.1 km) above the Martian surface before hitting Earth at about 78 miles per hour (126 km). how many hours).
NASA notes that many of the 80 high-strength suspension lines connecting the back shell to the canopy appear intact, adding: “Scattered and covered in dust, only about a third of the orange-and-white canopy – at 70.5 feet wide (21.5 meters) wide – was the largest spread over The surface of Mars – it can be seen, but the parachute shows no signs of damage from the supersonic airflow during inflation.”
On the other hand, the smashed back shell did not perform well, and NASA engineers instructed Ingenuity to photograph the components from an aerial perspective in the hope that the images would provide insight into their performance during the vehicle’s entry, descent and landing, and the collected data could help those working on a return mission. The upcoming Mars sample, which will publish a similar landing procedure.
“NASA has expanded its creative flight operations to perform groundbreaking flights like these, and every time we fly, Ingenuity covers new ground and offers a perspective that no mission could achieve,” Teddy Zanitos, Ingenuity Team Leader at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, said this week. The Mars sample return reconnaissance request is an excellent example of the utility of aerial platforms on Mars.”
NASA’s helicopter made history in April 2021 when it became the first powered and controlled flight on another planet.