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Join us for a live Q&A with members of the team that helped get NASA's Perseverance rover to Mars! Tag your questions with #CountdownToMars and we'll answer as many as we can during our 3:00pm ET live event today. A new chapter of Mars exploration has officially begun! On Feb. 18, 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover successfully landed on Mars. What’s next? The rover will prepare to explore its new Martian home, search for signs of ancient life and collect samples to be returned by a future mission. On this episode of NASA Science Live we feature: - Dr. Moogega Cooper, host of the episode and lead of making sure the rover didn’t bring Earth bacteria with it to Mars - Dr. Kelsey Moore, Perseverance Science Team Member studying astrobiology and how early life forms - Gregorio Villar, Entry Descent and Landing Operations Lead who helped build and test the system that landed the Perseverance rover on Mars
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April 19, 2021
In this video captured by NASA’s Perseverance rover, the agency's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took the first powered, controlled flight on another planet on April 19, 2021.
The rover was parked at “Van Zyl Overlook,” about 211 feet (64.3 meters) away in Mars' Jezero Crater and chronicled the flight operations with its cameras.
These images from the rover’s Mastcam-Z cameras show the helicopter hovering above the Red Planet's surface. During this first flight, the helicopter climbed to an altitude of 10 feet (3 meters), hovered, and then touched back down on the surface of Mars.
Ingenuity is a technology demonstration. The 4-pound (1.8-kilogram) rotorcraft will help determine whether future explorations on Mars could include an aerial perspective.
Perseverance touched down at "Octavia E. Butler Landing" with Ingenuity attached to its belly on Feb. 18, 2021. The helicopter was deployed to the surface on April 3.
For more information on Ingenuity, visit : https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/.
For more information on Perseverance, visit: https://mars.nasa.gov/perseverance.
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