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NASA's INGENUITY HELICOPTER.
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Space #GS3 NASA successfully flew its tiny helicopter Ingenuity on Mars, the first powered flight on another planet.□ ABOUT INGENUITY :-
◇ Ingenuity’s goal is to
demonstrate its technology works, and it won’t contribute to Perseverance’s science goals.
□ ABOUT PERSEVERANCE :-
◇ Launched on
July of 2020.◇ A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is
astrobiology, including the
search for signs of ancient microbial life.◇ The rover will characterize the
planet’s geology and
past climate, pave the way for
human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and
cache Martian rock and
regolith.
◇ Perseverance is fueled by electrical power using heat of
plutonium’s radioactive decay.
◇ Perseverance will carry a unique instrument,
MOXIE or
Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment: which for the first time will manufacture molecular oxygen on Mars using carbon dioxide.
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SOURCE - THE HINDU.
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