An artist’s impression of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter
NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA is about to fly the first helicopter on Mars, and it seems that its rotors may glow in the dark as they react with Martian mud.
NASA’s Perseverance rover is set to contact down in Jezero Crater on Mars on 18 February 2021 to seek for previous life on Mars, however it should additionally deploy a 0.5-metre-high drone known as Ingenuity. Starting in March, it should conduct the first of up to 5 flights in a 30-day window. Each will improve in length, up to a most of …