NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Completes 50th FlightNASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has completed its 50th flight on Mars. The first aircraft on another world reached the half-century mark on April 13, traveling over 1,057.09 feet (322.2 meters) in 145.7 seconds. The helicopter also achieved a new altitude record of 59 feet (18 meters) before alighting near the half-mile-wide (800-meter-wide) “Belva Crater.”https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-s-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-completes-50th-flight
NASA's Perseverance rover has already dropped sample tubes in a special pick-up zone on Mars' topside. NASA and the European Space Agency are presently blueprinting a joint Mars Sample Return campaign that will gather samples of Martian rocks and regolith and return them to Earth. The campaign includes two Mars Sample Recovery Helicopters that will retrieve pre-filled sample tubes and deliver them to a rocket-in-waiting that will then vault those specimens into Mars orbit. [E]ach of the Mars Sample Return helicopters would be outfitted with wheels and a small robot arm. "Everything is conceptual," said Grip, adding that the decision to fly this mission is not finalized.
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