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An important Mars mission has been grounded by NASA
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An important Mars mission has been grounded by NASA

The tiny Mars-based helicopter Ingenuity has been grounded by NASA. The space agency's Mars-based aircraft is currently on an extended break in the Jezero crater for safety reasons.

Since it arrived on Mars in 2021, the tiny helicopter has broken records. NASA grounded Ingenuity in January of this year for a reason. Is something wrong with Perseverance's companion

Over that time, it has proven that flight on Mars is possible, even in the thin atmosphere and low gravity.

There is no problem with Ingenuity itself. However, it has become increasingly dusty on Mars due to the approaching winter. As a result of dust covering NASA's solar panels, the InSight lander had to be shut down from studying the Martian surface.

InSight, which relied on solar panels for electricity supply, is now running out of power as it relied on solar panels to recharge its batteries. However, NASA is determined to use those batteries to conduct as many science experiments as possible. 

The team claims that the grounding of Ingenuity will allow the helicopter to recharge its batteries and then it will be able to resume work once the dust has settled. This means that Ingenuity will not be grounded forever.

As important as Ingenuity is to the space agency, the Perseverance rover and the Curiosity rover are neither searching for signs of life on Mars. 

NASA intended to send Ingenuity to Mars to prove flight was possible on the planet so that it would be able to plan for future flight-based transportation options.

It might one day become possible for actual communities on Mars to travel by using these types of transport options for moving supplies.

NASA's first manned mission to the planet in the 2030s will be crucial for grounding Ingenuity. However, NASA losing contact with Ingenuity earlier this year wasn't so surprising.

However, losing the helicopter now would prevent us from collecting more flight data.

Moreover, NASA engineers get to push the hardware to its limit because Ingenuity keeps breaking new records so that in the future, they can make the technology even more resilient for exploring the Martian surface.

Ingenuity is now grounded, which will mean longer waits for it to break records. Thankfully, James Webb's first pictures have already been released, so we're sure to see plenty more space-related content in the coming months.

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