Her grasp on the importance of exploration is. Ingenuitys first image of Mars, taken on April 3. Rupani’s essay on why she chose the name Ingenuity highlights her creativity, originality, and intelligence. “Since then, the UAV industry has exploded, and here we are - about to land a drone on Mars that will do exactly the sort of reconnaissance that the review panel laughed at,” she said, referring to unmanned aerial vehicles. 'I am proud that NASA’s Mars Helicopter will be named by Vaneeza Rupani of Northport, Alabama,' said Sen. “ panel members thought it was absurd that someone was requesting funding to use a ‘toy’ to do science,” she said. Planetary scientist Lori Fenton of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI) in California, who studies sand dunes on Mars and the challenges for robot Mars rovers, said she remembered a scientific proposal 12 years ago that suggested using a drone to study a field site somewhere in the western United States. Its first successful flight came last week, involving take off, a 20-30 second hovering period followed by a landing. It would deploy an entire drone helicopter probe equipped with scientific instruments in the thick but unbreathable atmosphere there, where it is much easier to fly than on Mars. NASA’s Ingenuity drone, part of its Perseverance mission to Mars, has continued to break new ground, tallying up three successful flights. NASA is already planning a more complex helicopter drone for Mars, and the proposed Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s moon Titan would launch in the late 2020s. Ingenuitys flights could pioneer a new generation of soaring Mars explorers working either independently, or alongside far-future human landing missions. The concept of using drones on robot probes to explore the solar system is relatively new, and this is unlikely to be the last flight on another planet or moon.
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