NASA’s Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, captured an aerial image of the Perseverance rover during a short test flight at the end of last week.
NASA’s Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, captured an aerial image of the Perseverance rover during its latest flight at the end of last week.
Recommended Videos In an image shared by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory , which is overseeing the current Mars mission, we can just spot part of the Perseverance rover at the top of the frame, and also some tire tracks leading up to it. The purpose was to check Ingenuity’s systems and gather data following an anomaly on the previous flight that caused the aircraft to automatically cut short its intended mission.
But after flying the first half of its autonomous journey, a flight-contingency program was triggered, prompting the automatic deployment of a program called ‘Land_Now,” which is designed to put the helicopter on the surface as soon as possible if it experiences any one of a few dozen off-nominal scenarios, JPL said.
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