![]() Before each landing, the tiny helicopter kicked up dust when it was 4.6 to 11. Researchers warn that it’s difficult to draw direct comparisons, but the amount of dust Ingenuity generated is many times more than what a similar helicopter on Earth would kick up. (Ingenuity has now flown more than 40 times on Mars, by the way, and is still going strong.) The study's findings will be important to steer spacecraft through seasonal dust storms, and could even be the first step to predicting them, team members said.Įach time Ingenuity flew, the team found, it kicked up a cloud of dust about 0.1% as massive as itself. ![]() ![]() Rabinovitch's team gathered low-resolution videos of six Ingenuity flights sent home by Perseverance and measured the sizes and masses of dust clouds during the helicopter's liftoffs, maneuvers and landings. ![]()
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