Communication and Critical Thinking

  NASA's Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity Part 1: Summary Description On February 18, 2021, NASA's Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, and their rover, Perseverance, landed in Jezero Crater, Mars (Gohd, 2021). It is equipped with carbon-fiber rotors that measure up to 1.2 meters across. Its blades can spin up to a maximum speed of 2500 revolutions per minute. Ingenuity is the first aircraft to have flown on Mars. According to Mimi Aung, Ingenuity's project manager at NASA, it had been fully tested on Earth before it took off for its Mars mission. Ingenuity was not designed to help with research on Mars. Its main responsibility is to test flight on Mars and prove that flight is possible. Ingenuity faced several challenges on its mission to Mars, such as attempting flight in Mars' thin atmosphere and dealing with wind and dust storms, as well as receiving enough energy through its solar panels to power itself. Ingenuity succeeded with the first three flights, flying each subsequent fli...

    NASA’s Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity  Part 1: Summary Description On February 18, 2021, NASA’s Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, along with their rover, Perseverance, successfully landed in Jezero Crater, Mars (Gohd, 2021). Ingenuity is the first aircraft to have flown on Mars. According to Mimi Aung, Ingenuity’s project manager at NASA, it had been fully tested on Earth before it took off for its Mars mission. Ingenuity was not designed to help with research on Mars. Its main responsibility is to test flight on Mars and prove that flight is possible on Mars. Ingenuity faced several challenges on its mission to Mars, such as attempting flight in Mars' thin atmosphere and dealing with wind and dust storms, as well as receiving enough energy through its solar panels to power itself. Ingenuity succeeded with the first three flights, flying each subsequent flight to higher altitudes and for longer durations. However, on its fourth flight attempt, the helicopter failed to shift to "fli...