The flight of the tiny Ingenuity helicopter is the first powered, controlled flight on another planet. It is a part of the Mars 2020 mission which landed the Perseverance rover in February.
The history of Mars exploration is riddled with failure. In the 1990s four out of NASA’s six Mars missions were lost, including a $125 million orbiter.
NASA has released the video of the Perseverance rover landing with the help of a sky crane, as well as audio sounds from the surface of the planet Mars.
Following the successful Mars landing by NASA's Perseverance, ISRO said it was working on Mars Orbiter Mission 2. Chandrayaan-3 and Gaganyaan remain immediate priorities.
Perseverance joins two other NASA missions exploring Mars — Curiosity rover which arrived in mid-2012, and the stationary InSight lander that began exploration in November 2018.
Mission of Perseverance includes assessing habitability of Mars and looking for evidence of past or present life. Spacecraft includes Ingenuity, the first chopper to fly on another planet.
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It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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