American helicopter Ingenuity made the seventh flight over Mars

The Mars-based Ingenuity helicopter has made its seventh flight over the planet’s surface, according to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Twitter. 

It is specified that the flight lasted 62.8 seconds, the device flew 106 meters to the south and landed in a new place. During the flight, the helicopter took a black-and-white photo.

The creation of the helicopter cost $ 80 million, it was delivered to the Red Planet on February 18, along with the Perseverance rover. The purpose of the research is to study possible traces of life on the planet.

At the end of April, an unmanned NASA helicopter successfully made its fourth flight over the surface of Mars, rising to an altitude of about 5 meters at a speed of about 3.5 m/s.

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