NASA's Mars helicopter has entered a new phase of growth.

NASA's Mars helicopter has entered a new phase of growth.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA's tiny Mars robot helicopter Ingenuity is graduating after beating all standards of its first four test flights, the first by an aero plane over the surface of another earth.

On Fridays, the United States Raumfahrt Agency reported that Ingenuity has shifted from pure demonstration mode to an ambitious task, which measures how aerial scouting and other functions could support the Red Planet's future scientific exploration.

 

During a briefing from the NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory(JPL) in Los Angeles, where the two-rotor aircraft was developed and constructed, Ingenuity summarised Ingenuity's 30 days of scheduled project extension.

On a nearly two-minute flight on Friday morning, the latest "operative demonstration" process of the four-pound solar-powered choppers started with their fourth start. Data from Ingenuity returned later in the day revealed that it crossed 872 feet round trip — about three American soccer fields — at almost 8 miles per hour of altitude.

The helicopter flew at about 16 feet above ground level and was regarded as the best way to monitor the ground during altitude and to balance the altitude of its second and third volts.

 

On Sunday's new run, which went quicker and farther than Earth's test flight, passed the speed and distance records.

 

Compared to this, Ingenuity's first 39-second flight on Mars was only 10 feet up on April 19, floating momentarily in its place and descending down to landing straight ahead.