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La NASA restablece contacto con su helicóptero Ingenuity en Marte

El helicóptero, que parece un gran dron, se convirtió en 2021 en el primer vehículo motorizado en volar en otro planeta.

This NASA photo was taken after the first flight of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter � and the first powered, controlled flight on another planet,  captured by Mastcam-Z, a pair of zoomable cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, on April 19, 2021. - Flying in a controlled manner on Mars is far more difficult than flying on Earth. Mars has significant gravity (about one-third that of Earth's), but its atmosphere is just 1 percent as dense as Earth's at the surface. Stitched together from multiple images, the mosaic is not white balanced; instead, it is displayed in a preliminary calibrated version of a natural color composite, approximately simulating the colors of the scene that we would see if we were there viewing it ourselves. (Photo by Handout / NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/ASU / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/ASU/HANDOUT" - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS
This NASA photo was taken after the first flight of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter � and the first powered, controlled flight on another planet, captured by Mastcam-Z, a pair of zoomable cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, on April 19, 2021. - Flying in a controlled manner on Mars is far more difficult than flying on Earth. Mars has significant gravity (about one-third that of Earth's), but its atmosphere is just 1 percent as dense as Earth's at the surface. Stitched together from multiple images, the mosaic is not white balanced; instead, it is displayed in a preliminary calibrated version of a natural color composite, approximately simulating the colors of the scene that we would see if we were there viewing it ourselves. (Photo by Handout / NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/ASU / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/ASU/HANDOUT" - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS HANDOUT

La NASA restableció el contacto con su pequeño helicóptero Ingenuity en Marte, después de que un corte inesperado en su vuelo número 72 sobre el planeta rojo hiciera temer por su futuro, anunció la agencia espacial estadounidense este sábado.

El helicóptero, que parece un gran dron, se convirtió en 2021 en el primer vehículo motorizado en volar en otro planeta. Había llegado a Marte con el rover Perseverance, que es utilizado de relevo para transmitir datos entre el helicóptero y el comando en Tierra.

Los datos de la sonda se transmiten a través de Perseverance de vuelta a la Tierra, pero las comunicaciones se perdieron repentinamente durante un vuelo de prueba el jueves, el número 72 del aparato.

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