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It is an experimental craft designed by NASA, tasked with establishing a precedent for future flight on other planets, with differing atmospheres and gravitational pulls than our own. (On Mars, the atmosphere is 1% as thick as Earth’s, and the pull of gravity there is about one-third what it is on Earth.) Ingenuity just passed that test with flying colors and has at least four more flights in its docket before the $85 million machine is retired.
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That is one expensive drone! So glad we were able to do it though. It is amazing when you thing about propellers moving a vehicle in a less dense atmosphere. I mean, 1% of our own is a massive difference.
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