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NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity set for 7th Red Planet flight on Sunday – Space.com
Ingenuity will head toward another new airfield.
NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity
will take to the air again this weekend, if all goes according to plan.
Ingenuity’s handlers are prepping the 4-lb. (1.8 kilograms) chopper for its seventh Martian flight, which will take place no earlier than Sunday (June 6). The plan is to send Ingenuity to a new airfield, about 350 feet (105 meters) south of its current location on the floor of Jezero Crater
.
“This will mark the second time the helicopter will land at an airfield that it did not survey from…
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