NASA’s Perseverance rover lands hopefully on Mars around Wednesday February 18th 2021 and one thing that should definitely get you excited about is the helicopter that will also be deployed.
Each battery charge holds enough juice for only 90 seconds of flight time but that should be enough to send back some impressive videos for all of us back on Earth to watch.
I’m sure Teddy Tzanetos, MiMi Aung and our main man Bob Balaram (the small team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory responsible for the helicopter) are chewing their nails off. We love crazy ideas and will all be cheering with you when we see the helicopter do that first selfie with Perseverance down below!
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/6-things-to-know-about-nasas-mars-helicopter-on-its-way-to-mars/