The Ingenuity helicopter is attempting to take color images of Mars on its second, riskier flight
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The Ingenuity helicopter is making a second flight attempt on Mars Thursday, and it's even more challenging than the first. Ingenuity will attempt a longer, higher-climbing flight, including an angled and sideways trek.
Ingenuity had a "flawless" first flight on Monday lasting about 40 seconds where it lifted up 10 feet (3 meters) in the air, hovered, made a turn and safely landed. It was the first powered, controlled flight on another planet. Now, the NASA helicopter team wants to push Ingenuity to do more.Elected officials, Jewish advocacy groups and civil rights leaders are vowing to “push back” against the message of a White nationalist group that staged a march last week near downtown Columbus, Ohio, calling the demonstration an act of hate unwelcome in their community – and the United States more broadly.
Senate Democrats have confirmed some of President Joe Biden’s picks for the federal bench this week in the face of President-elect Donald Trump’s calls for a total GOP blockade of judicial nominations – in part because several Republicans involved with the Trump transition process have been missing votes.