Ingenuity, NASA’s record-breaking Mars helicopter, continues to fly two years after scientists expected it to fail.
Incredibly, Ingenuity’s delicate parts stood up to the Martian cold. But NASA still faced the challenge of reconnecting with the helicopter every time its components froze, Tzanetos said. The Ingenuity team adjusted by using data on Martian sunrises to calculate when the helicopter would thaw out each morning and regain enough charge to power on.
NASA entered its most nerve-racking game of hide-and-seek with Ingenuity in April after Flight 49, as the helicopter accompanied Perseverance onto bumpy terrain thought to be an ages-old river delta.failed to connect with the helicopter over the first few days after the flight, Brown wrote; their process sometimes required several days to find Ingenuity. But their fears grew as almost a week passed. Tzanetos wondered if the plucky helicopter’s luck had finally run out.
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