NASA JPL has shared tweets with selfies taken by Mars Ingenuity helicopters. The picture was taken during an eight helicopter test flight on Monday this week. While NASA did not share much detail about the eighth test flight, what he said was a helicopter flying for 77.4 seconds from a distance of 160 meters.
After a short flight, the ingenuity landed in a new place around 133.5 meters from the perseverance Rover. The image is interesting and shows the shadows of ingenuity when flying across the surface of Mars. The picture shows a double frozen helicopter rotor and looks very similar to the dragonfly wings.
Things have run smoothly for the helicopter of ingenuity after suffering significant errors during the sixth test flight. On that flight, there was a problem with one frame of the image taken by a navigation camera on a spacecraft lost, resulting in a helicopter that could not determine where exactly and became unstable. Fortunately, ingenuity is able to land safely and continue the operation.
NASA celebrated the seventh flight from the helicopter earlier this month, and the flight went without obstacles. NASA has extended the testing operation for the MARS ingenuity helicopter to the new stage, and more test flights will be made. NASA currently takes a test to see how the mission of using flights can be done in the future.
With the success of the helicopter on the surface of Mars so far, it is not surprising that most of the MARS is the future and potentially mission to other planets including their own rotors. By flying on the surface of Mars rather than rolling during explorers, ingenuity can cover more land faster, potentially expanding the area that can be investigated.