"This was a big milestone, as it was our first opportunity to turn on Ingenuity and give its electronics a 'test drive' since we launched on July 30," said Tim Canham, the operations lead for Mars Helicopter. "Since everything went by the book, we'll perform the same activity about every two weeks to maintain an acceptable state of charge."
Once Perseverance touches down on Mars, the batteries will be charged by the helicopter's solar panel, NASA said. If Ingenuity can withstand the cold Martian nights, the team will go forward with test flights.
Quite a lot has been going on:
Sorry, Despite Decades Of Exploration, Mars Remains Almost A Total Mystery
Artist's impression of NASA's failed Mars Polar Lander at the Martian South Pole. After arrival at ... [+] Mars in 1999, the craft is thought to have crashed into the surface at high velocity
At first blush, it may appear that Mars is no longer the hip planetary exploration destination it once was. After all, NASA has been exploring the Red Planet since its Mariner 4 flyby in 1965. But despite decades of exploration, billions of dollars and untold man hours, scientifically, Mars remains almost as mysterious as it was when NASA's Viking lander first touched down in 1976.
NASA has launched the most ambitious Mars rover ever built: here's what happens next
NASA's Perseverance rover takes off for Mars aboard an Atlas V rocket from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Credit: Joel Kowsky/NASA
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"Perseverance is going to do so much for us," says Kennda Lynch, an astrobiologist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas.
The Ingenuity Mars helicopter will scout for places where the Perseverance could roll. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Once Perseverance touches down, engineers will spend around 90 days remotely checking all of its systems to make sure they're in working order. The rover probably won't begin rolling in earnest until May, when it will strike out on its six wheels to explore Jezero Crater, which lies about 3,750 kilometres from Curiosity's landing site.
Will Moon And Mars Appear Of Equal Size In The Night Sky On Aug 27?
"12:30 Aug 27th you will see two Moons in the sky, but only one will be the Moon. The other will be Mars. It won't happen again until 2287," the posts, which also circulated on Instagram , claim.
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That summer, Mars was closer to Earth than it had been for almost 60,000 years, according to NASA's Mars Exploration Program , but even then the planet appeared as a bright red star and was still about 35 million miles away.
NASA has repeatedly warned people not to believe the claim, including in articles published in 2005 and 2009 , which explained: "Even with magnification, Mars does not look the same as a full Moon."
And here's another article:
Here's how 2 Indian schoolgirls discovered a 'Mars-Crosser' asteroid | Space
It's not every day that two Indian schoolgirls spot a space rock that scientists haven't yet, but that's exactly what happened this summer in a stroke of cosmic good luck.
Radhika Lakhani and Vaidehi Vekariya, two students in Surat, a city in Gujarat in western India, were taking part in a citizen-science project using astronomical data when they realized they were seeing something new. That something turned out to be an asteroid now dubbed 2020 OE6.
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a lot going on but they just fired up the Mars helicopter for the first time, everything's good https://t.co/UTACaNb8m2 mims (from Baltimore, MD) Sun Aug 16 16:51:18 +0000 2020
NASA powers up Ingenuity Mars helicopter in space for the 1st time https://t.co/5uevoVrAqS https://t.co/DH83VRmPC9 SPACEdotcom (from NYC) Sun Aug 16 13:14:34 +0000 2020
In other news, there's a helicopter on Mars. https://t.co/FcFku5Vsfl kairyssdal (from Los Angeles, CA) Sun Aug 16 17:41:47 +0000 2020
Mars helicopter reaches "big milestone" on flight to planet https://t.co/k3xqKTjwT5 CBSNews (from New York, NY) Mon Aug 17 13:14:33 +0000 2020
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