Mars helicopter spots wreckage from Perseverance landing
by Jasmine Hicks from The Verge - All Posts on (#5YPPX)
Ingenuity captured images that shows debris from the Mars landing site featuring Perseverance's parachute and backshell | Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech New pictures from the Ingenuity helicopter offer a fresh perspective of the wreckage left behind when the Perseverance rover landed on Mars last year, NASA said on Wednesday.
Launched in 2020, the Perseverance rover successfully landed on the Red Planet in 2021, with the mission of finding ancient signs of life on Mars. The rover carried the Ingenuity helicopter onboard - an experimental project that scientists on Earth hoped would be able to see sights that the rover couldn't.
Perseverance went through a grueling process known as the seven minutes of terror to descend onto the Martian surface. As it entered the atmosphere, a heat shield helped protect the rover from the blistering heat of reentry and slowed it down dramatically. After...