NASA loses contact with Ingenuity, its only helicopter on Mars International | News

the a pot He lost contact with his small helicopter “cleverness” On Mars, which was making its seventy-second mission, the American Space Agency announced and indicated that it was seeking to reconnect.

The helicopter, which resembles a large drone, became available in 2021 The first robotic vehicle to fly on another planet. It arrived on Mars with the Perseverance rover, which is used as a relay to transfer data between the helicopter and command on Earth.

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NASA explained in a message published on Friday evening that “Ingenuity” reached a height of 12 meters during its flight on Thursday. but “During its descent, communications between the helicopter and the rover ended before landing“, NASA detailed.

The agency added that the teams responsible for the helicopter “are analyzing the available data and studying the next steps to reconnect with the helicopter.”

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He added that the flight was intended to “examine the helicopter's systems, after it landed earlier than expected during the previous flight.”

NASA had temporarily lost contact with the helicopter in the past, particularly for about two months last year, but this outage was planned. (Yo)