{"id":120829,"date":"2021-03-23T19:23:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T02:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/perseverance-rover-drives-to-helipad-mars-helicopter-ingenuity-deployment-area"},"modified":"2021-03-23T19:23:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T02:23:10","slug":"perseverance-rover-drives-to-helipad-mars-helicopter-ingenuity-deployment-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/perseverance-rover-drives-to-helipad-mars-helicopter-ingenuity-deployment-area","title":{"rendered":"Perseverance Rover drives to Helipad \u2013 Mars Helicopter Ingenuity deployment area"},"content":{"rendered":"

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https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=NVGkdfdaxIE&feature=share<\/a><\/p>\n

On March 232021 NASA demonstrated Mars Helicopter Ingenuity\u2019s deployment area\/place and Perseverance Rover drives directly to Helipad (helicopter deployment site). Ingenuity is nestled up sideways under the belly of the Perseverance rover, with a cover to protect it from the debris kicked up during landing. General thing for successful flight of Mars Helicopter is Space weather. It relates to effects of our Sun\u2019s radiation on Ingenuity. Everything on Mars, including Ingenuity, is bathed in a background of cosmic rays (high energy particles) from our Milky Way galaxy as well as particles from the Sun. When the Sun has a large flare and ejects electrically-charged particles (a so-called coronal mass ejection), the particles travel at high speed toward Mars and Ingenuity, following the Sun\u2019s magnetic lines of force. As our helicopter has a number of elements that are not specifically engineered to be highly robust to these particles, we keep an eye on solar weather events. If such an event is predicted, and is of very large magnitude, we would possibly delay operating Ingenuity for a day or two to let the surge of particles pass by.<\/p>\n

Credit: nasa.gov, NASA\/JPL-Caltech, NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/ASU<\/p>\n

Source for NASA\u2019s Mars Helicopter Ingenuity page: https:\/\/mars.nasa.gov\/technology\/helicopter\/<\/a><\/p>\n

#mars #helicopter #perseverance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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