Ingenuity helicopter poised for maiden flight on Mars
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After troubleshooting a software glitch, NASA's $80 million Ingenuity helicopter will attempt its first controlled, powered flight in the ultra-thin atmosphere of Mars early Monday that could be a "Wright brothers moment" paving the way to future interplanetary aircraft.
Tipping the scales at just 4 pounds — 1.5 pounds in the lower gravity of Mars — Ingenuity's counter-rotating 4-foot-long rotors, spinning at 2,400 revolutions per minute, will be commanded to change their pitch, "biting" deeper into the thin atmosphere for a liftoff from the floor of Jezero Crater at 3:31 a.m. ET. With the Perseverance rover looking on from a safe distance, Ingenuity is programmed to climb 10 feet straight up, hover, turn in place and then land for a test flight spanning 40 seconds or so.
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