With less than a year to go before NASA’s Mars 2020 mission is scheduled to launch, it’s an “all hands on deck” affair at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. There, engineers are piecing together all of the sensitive components that will make the Mars 2020 rover tick, and the latest addition might be the most exciting of them all: the Mars Helicopter.
Much has been made about the Mars 2020 rover’s exciting capabilities, but it’s not the only robot that will be exploring Mars once the mission makes it to the Red Planet. The Mars Helicopter will be deployed to the surface of the planet shortly after the rover makes a safe landing, and if it takes to the skies as NASA plans, it will become the first manmade aircraft to fly on another planet.
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