NASA is creating a Mars helicopter that might land itself from orbit

NASA is engaged on plans to ship one other helicopter to Mars. The craft would land itself after screaming into the planet’s ambiance at pace, earlier than masking a number of kilometres a day whereas carrying scientific tools.

A number of landers have safely touched down on the floor of Mars utilizing parachutes and rockets to gradual their descent. Some have even contained wheeled rovers that might discover the floor. Then got here NASA’s helicopter drone Ingenuity. Though it was engineered on a shoestring finances, it managed to make a shocking 72 flights on the Purple Planet,…