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Mars is bombarded with basketball-sized meteorites on a nearly daily basis, five times more often than previously estimated, seismic recordings from a NASA spacecraft have revealed
Ingenuity
Ingenuity, nicknamed Ginny, is an autonomous NASA helicopter that operated on Mars from 2021 to 2024 as part of the Mars 2020 mission
Launch : July 30, 2020, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
Landed : Feb. 18, 2021, Jezero Crater, Mars
Ingenuity made its first flight on April 19, 2021,
Demonstrated that flight is possible in the extremely thin atmosphere of Mars, and becoming the first aircraft to conduct a powered and controlled extra-terrestrial flight
Length of mission : Technology demonstration completed; transitioned to new operations demo phase.
Mission completed on Jan. 25, 2024.
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