An artist’s impression of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA is about to fly the first helicopter on Mars, and it turns out that its rotors could glow in the dark as they react with Martian dust.
±·´¡³§´¡â€™s Perseverance rover is set to touch down in Jezero Crater on Mars on 18 February 2021 to search for past life on Mars, but it will also deploy a 0.5-metre-high drone called Ingenuity. Starting in March, it will conduct the first of up to five flights in a 30-day window. Each will increase in duration, up to a maximum of…
