On August 14, 2022 NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter successfully completed rotor blade spin test before flight #30 on Red Planet. Ingenuity is healthy. Mars Helicopter is going to make first flight since June 11, 2022. Ingenuity was grounded because of high level of wind activity on Mars, when dust and small fractions of Martian sand are lifted by the wind and accumulating on the surface of helicopter’s solar panel. So for now there is fine weather conditions for Ingenuity to complete 30th flight.
Credit: NASA.gov
Source image of Ingenuity’s blades rotation: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/HNM_0527_0713730826_471ECM_N0290001HELI00030_0000LUJ
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