NASA Summary Draft 1 with Janaish

On February 18, 2021, NASA’s Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, along with their rover, Perseverance, successfully landed in Jezero Crater, Mars (Gohd, 2021). Ingenuity is the first aircraft to have flown on Mars. According to Mimi Aung, Ingenuity’s project manager at NASA, it had been fully tested on Earth before it took off for its Mars mission.

Ingenuity was not designed to help with research on Mars. Its main responsibility is to test flight on Mars and prove that flight is possible on Mars. Ingenuity faced several challenges on its mission on Mars, such as attempting flight in Mars' thin atmosphere and dealing with wind and dust storms as well as receiving enough energy through its solar panels to power itself.

Ingenuity succeeded with the first three flights, flying each subsequent flight to higher altitudes and for longer durations. However, on its fourth flight attempt, the helicopter failed to shift to "flight mode", which resulted in a delay of the fourth flight.

As the flight mission was going better than expected, Ingenuity had been tasked with finding a new flight location and taking pictures of the location on its fifth flight, all without the support of Perseverance nearby.

For now, Ingenuity will continue to set new boundaries and explore more of Mars.


Gohd, C. (2021, May 22). Mars helicopter Ingenuity: First aircraft to fly on the Red Planet

https://www.space.com/ingenuity-mars-helicopter-perseverance-rover

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