After more than two years on the red planet, the Mars helicopter Ingenuity has broken two new records, NASA said.
The helicopter on Sunday flew 14.5 miles per hour, beating its previous record of 13.4 miles per hour, and hit an altitude of 52.5 feet, outperforming its previous top height of 46 feet. The data from Ingenuity, which has flown 49 flights and been on Mars since February 2021, wasIngenuity was brought to Mars by NASA's Perseverance rover.
Ingenuity has set records in the past: In April 2021, it became the first powered, controlled flight in Mars' extremely thin atmosphere, NASA said. In a, Ingenuity Team Lead Teddy Tzanetos spoke from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and said that the records that Ingenuity had set were allowing developers to advance future helicopter design.
"These sorts of wins are coming from the surface of Mars directly into the design of the new sample recovery helicopters, and she's done a fantastic job and surpassed any sort of metric of success that anyone on the team could have ever imagined for this little tiny four-pound spacecraft," he said.
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