Nasa’s Ingenuity helicopter has unlocked its rotorblades ahead of a pioneering flight over the red planet’s surface.
The helicopter was dropped from the Perseverance rover in recent days and has successfully fended for itself on the Martian surface. Since then, engineers have been making preparations and ensuring that the helicopter is ready to fly.
It will begin its first test journey “no earlier” than 11 April, Nasa has said, and it hopes to conduct at least five flights before its month-long journey is over. After that it will be left on the surface, hopefully having successfully demonstrated the technology it was taken to Mars to test.
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