The ingenuity of NASA completes the ninth flight despite a massive challenge

NASA has announced that ingenuity, its small Martian helicopter, successfully passed its ninth and the most difficult flight so far, marking a new stage for the surprisingly capable vehicle. Unlike past flights, NASA used the newest flight for the ingenuity of wells against “stimulating ground”, not to mention the great distance traveled. 

It is important to remember that ingenuity has been designed simply as a technological demonstration – that is to say, it is possible to pilot a helicopter on the red planet. As for Rovers who went to March, Ingenuity managed to survive its fundamental objective to reach additional milestones.

Ingenuity obviously flies in the air, but the ground below counts. This is due to the way the NASA team has designed the navigation system, which has received an algorithm that would understand the ground it has perceived as a dish. It’s been on flights on land less than plain for the helicopter, which is confronted with errors when it is responsible for stealing on land, it has not been programmed to understand.

Despite the nature of his navigation system, NASA has decided to challenge the ingenuity beyond the past flights flying on the Séítah region, sufficiently rough than even the rover of perseverance would have trouble managing it. Because the Rover can not help scientists understand this region, NASA has decided to use this ingenious flight to get their first close-up photos of “major scientific targets” in the region.

In addition to successfully stealing on this rough area, ingenuity broke out its previous flight speeds and duration. With the flight finished successfully earlier this week, NASA says it expects to receive color images captured by Ingenuity next week.