India's next Mars mission will also include a helicopter, following in the footsteps of NASA's predecessor, the Ingenuity drone.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is currently developing a flyby concept with an Indian tuesday Lander in the early 2030s.
India's first mission to the Red Planet – The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also known as „Mangalyaan” – was launched in November 2013 and entered Mars orbit in September 2014. The spacecraft conducted science in orbit around the Red Planet eight years ago. Contact with Earth is cut off In 2022.
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However, ISRO's next mission to Mars will be more ambitious. Jaydev Pradeep, a scientist at Vikram Sarabhai Space Center's Space Physics Laboratory, said during a recent webinar that the helicopter planned to land on Mars will carry a set of payloads for India Today's aerial exploration of the planet. reported.
Planned science payloads for the drone include a temperature sensor, humidity sensor, pressure sensor, wind speed sensor, electric field sensor and a trace species and dust sensor to measure the vertical distribution of dust aerosols, the report said.
The rover is capable of flying up to 328 feet (100 meters) above the Martian surface. Martian atmosphere. In comparison, the Intelligence reached an altitude of 79 feet (24 m) and covered a horizontal distance of 10.5 miles (17 kilometers) in just over two hours of its total flight time.
Intelligence Landed with NASA Persistence rover in Jezero Crater on Mars in February 2021. Flight in the thin Martian atmosphere not only proved possible, but exceeded all expectations. Ingenuity's prime mission called for five technology demonstration flights, but the 4-pound (1.8 kilogram) helicopter made the notch. 72 March Releases before landing permanently due to rotor-blade damage in January 2024.
India is not the only country taking inspiration from NASA and intelligence. China has At least two comments For Mars drones, including one that could play a role in the nation's planning Return to Mars model task.
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