NASA Mars Helicopter Flight 19 – New Year, Same Ingenuity
The next flight on Mars marks the first of 2022 and the nineteenth for NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. The current mission goal is to reach…
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NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Is Not Susceptible to log4j Vulnerability
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter does not run Apache or log4j nor is it susceptible to the log4j vulnerability. NASA takes cybersecurity very seriously and, for this…
Red Planet Rotorcraft Record! NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Reaches an Airborne Milestone Never Considered Achievable
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Reaches a Total of 30 Minutes Aloft With its recent 17th flight, the Red Planet rotorcraft reaches an airborne milestone the…
Hitting the Limits: NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Executes 17th Martian Flight
Ingenuity flew for the 17th time at Mars on Sunday, December 5. After the helicopter executed the planned 614-foot (187-meter) traverse to the northeast, the…
Heading North Into Séítah: Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Continues Its Journey Back to Wright Brothers Field
With Flight 17, Ingenuity continues its journey back to Wright Brothers Field at the Octavia E. Butler landing site. Flight 17 is the third flight…
Dramatic Video of Mars Helicopter’s Challenging Flight Captured by NASA’s Perseverance Rover
Recently downlinked imagery of a September flight has allowed the rover imaging team to put together a video of rotorcraft performing to near-perfection. Video footage…
NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Preparing To Glide Over “Raised Ridges” and Land Near Edge of “South Séítah”
With Flight 15, Ingenuity began the journey back towards “Wright Brothers Field” at “Octavia E. Butler Landing,” the site where Perseverance touched down with Ingenuity…
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter – Start of the Return Journey
With conjunction over and our first flight at 2,700 RPM behind us, Ingenuity is ready to begin the journey back to the Wright Brothers Field at…
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flies Again
The successful 14th flight of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took place shortly after 1:18 a.m. PDT on October 24, 2021, at Jezero Crater. As planned,…
Roving With Perseverance: See NASA Mars Rover and Ingenuity Helicopter Models on U.S. Tour
Catch Mars mania as a traveling exhibit visits more than a dozen towns across the U.S. with lifelike models of NASA’s Perseverance rover and Ingenuity…
How NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Talks to Us From Mars
The Ingenuity helicopter made history on April 19, 2021, with the first powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet. How do engineers talk…
Next Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flight Delayed Until After Conjunction – Here’s What Went Wrong
2,800 RPM Spin a Success, but Flight 14 Delayed to Post Conjunction It’s been an eventful several Martian days, or sols, since our last blog…
Solar Conjunction: NASA’s Mars Fleet Lies Low With Sun Between Earth and Red Planet
The missions will continue collecting data about the Red Planet, though engineers back on Earth will stop sending commands to them until mid-October. NASA will…
NASA Ingenuity Helicopter: Flying on Mars Is Getting Harder and Harder
In the months since we flew for the first time, we have learned a great deal about operating a helicopter on Mars. We have explored…
NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Flies at a Lower Altitude Than Ever Before – Captures a Mars Rock Feature in 3D
The rotorcraft captures nuances of rocky outcrop during aerial reconnaissance. NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter provided a 3D view of a rock-covered mound during its 13th…
Lucky 13? Mars Ingenuity Helicopter to Get Lower for More Detailed Images During Next Flight
“The longer you look back, the farther you can look forward.” –Winston Churchill Following Flight 12’s scouting images of “South Séítah,” which were the most…
NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Sees Potential Martian “Road” Ahead
Perseverance scientist impressed with aerial images of location considered for rover exploration. Ask any space explorer, and they’ll have a favorite photograph or two from…
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Spots Perseverance Rover From Above – Can You See It?
Can you see NASA’s newest rover in this picture from Jezero Crater? NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter recently completed its 11th flight at the Red Planet,…