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Africa-Press<\/a> – Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter could make its first flight over the Red Planet as soon as Monday, the US space agency reported, following a delay of more than a week due to a possible technical issue.<\/p>\n

The mini-helicopter’s trip will mark the first-ever powered, controlled flight on another planet, and will help NASA reap invaluable data about the conditions on Mars.<\/p>\n

“NASA is targeting no earlier than Monday, April 19, for the first flight of its Ingenuity Mars Helicopter,” the space agency reported Saturday.<\/p>\n

Data will return to Earth “a few hours following the autonomous flight,” which would take off at approximately 3:30 am (0730 GMT), NASA said.<\/p>\n

Ingenuity’s first trip was initially set for last Sunday, but was delayed after a potential issue emerged during a high-speed test of the four-pound (1.8 kilogram) helicopter’s rotors.<\/p>\n

NASA calls the unprecedented helicopter operation highly risky: The flight is a challenge because the air on Mars is so thin — less than one percent of the pressure of Earth’s atmosphere.<\/p>\n

The helicopter arrived on Mars attached to the underside of the Perseverance rover, which touched down on February 18.<\/p>\n

NASA confirmed earlier this year- that it’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity has touched down on the Red Planet. PHOTO\/COURTESY\/NASA<\/p>\n

After the helicopter’s flight, Ingenuity will send Perseverance technical data on what it has done, and that information will be transmitted back to Earth.<\/p>\n

The helicopter mission is be the equivalent on Mars of the first powered flight on Earth — by the Wright brothers in 1903 in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. A piece of fabric from that plane has been tucked inside Ingenuity in honor of that feat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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