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First ‘space helicopter’ set to take to Martian skies – NBC News
Dubbed “Ingenuity,” the drone weighs just 4 pounds, and it will stay stored beneath the rover’s belly while Perseverance runs through its initial surface checks…
When NASA’s Perseverance rover touches down next week, it will carry one of the strangest devices ever seen on Mars a drone destined to make the first controlled flights on an extraterrestrial planet.
Dubbed Ingenuity, the drone weighs just 4 pounds, and it will stay stored beneath the rovers belly while Perseverance runs through its initial surface checks and experiments.
But about the middle of April, the rover will scout out a flat area without large rocks to deploy the drone, and soon after…
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