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NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Nearly Spun Out Of Control On Mars Because Of A Camera Glitch – Forbes
Ingenuity experienced a “stressful” moment on its sixth and latest flight earlier this week, according to NASA, when the drone began oscillating wildly due to an…
An image of Mars taken on Ingenuity’s’ sixth flight from 10 meters high.
NASA/JPL-Caltech
Ingenuity experienced a stressful moment on its sixth and latest flight earlier this week, according to NASA, when the drone began oscillating wildly due to an image processing glitch before managing to land safely.
Launched along with NASAs Perseverance Rover, the small 1.8-kilogram Ingenuity drone is the first vehicle to perform controlled aerial flight on another world.
Over the last few weeks it has performed…
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