NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity on Mars is still going strong, notching its 11th Red Planet flight on Thursday (Aug. 5).
The flight, which saw the little chopper travel 1,250 feet (380 meters), was designed to get Ingenuity to a set location that the helicopter will now make its base for one or more geology reconnaissance flights of South Séítah, a rugged patch of ground on the floor of Mars' Jezero Crater.
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For years, scientists have been debating what might lay under the Martian planet's south polar cap after bright radar reflections were discovered and initially attributed to water.
This image taken by UArizona's HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows ice sheets at Mars' south pole. The spacecraft detected clays near this ice; scientists have proposed that such clays are the source of radar reflections previously interpreted as liquid water.
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NASA recently shared a new batch of Mars photos , and among them, whimsical worm-like rocks were spotted on the Martian surface. If it seems like there's a lot of discussion surrounding Mars right now, that's because there is!
In just the past month, multiple discoveries and milestones have been accomplished on Mars.
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Beginning in 2018, researchers published a ground-breaking study in Science detailing a mysterious feature thought to be a reservoir of liquid water underneath ice on Mars' south polar ice cap, also known as the south polar layered deposits (SPLD).
The studies detected the elusive underground lakes using data collected by the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding instrument ( MARSIS ) aboard the European Space Agency's Mars Express Orbiter .
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Curiosity has been exploring Gale Crater since 2012. The arch shows there are still plenty of visual and geologic wonders for the veteran rover to uncover as it makes its way up the base of Mount Sharp.
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In April, when a small helicopter named "Ingenuity" took off from the surface of Mars, it made history as the first aircraft to fly in the in the atmosphere of another planet. It may have also unlocked future possibilities for how NASA explores the surfaces of distant planets.
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#MarsHelicopter will soon attempt its 11th flight. Ingenuity will climb to ~12 meters & travel ~385 meters northwes… https://t.co/ixzIPRoAVZ NASAJPL (from Pasadena, Calif.) Wed Aug 04 17:05:14 +0000 2021
The #MarsHelicopter's images of "Raised Ridges" raise the bar on aerial reconnaissance of the Red Planet. Mars rove… https://t.co/TKfHGnau2l NASAJPL (from Pasadena, Calif.) Wed Aug 04 18:36:23 +0000 2021
This 3D look at a geologic feature the @NASAPersevere team calls "Raised Ridges" came from the #MarsHelicopter duri… https://t.co/m7JheOvOPX NASAMars (from Fourth Planet From the Sun) Wed Aug 04 20:31:23 +0000 2021
Ingenuity Mars helicopter gearing up for 11th Red Planet flight https://t.co/fJhHvhVwHW https://t.co/dDGOR2gLBH SPACEdotcom (from NYC) Wed Aug 04 18:33:01 +0000 2021
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