The Ingenuity mini helicopter is on the surface of Mars

Perseverance of , which is wandering around Mars, left the mini on the surface of Mars before the historic first of the four-kilogram aircraft.

Ingenuity was dropped from a height of four inches from the bottom of the Perseverance rover to the surface of Mars.

The four inches may not seem like a huge drop, but achieving it was an important milestone, as the helicopter would have to go through a multi-day rollover from its horizontal position in the rover to a vertical position before launching. .

Now that Ingenuity has been separated from Perseverance, it will need to draw power from the sun using its onboard solar panels. This will keep the helicopter warm on the freezing cold nights on Mars, where the thermoes can reach as low as negative 130 degrees Fahrenheit (-54.444°C), according with Bob Balaram, Chief Engineer of Ingenuity.

If Ingenuity survives the difficult conditions, it will make its first flight to another planet, "no earlier" than April 11. NASA described the flight zone of the helicopter on March 23. Ingenuity's plan is to try up to five test flights within 30 days before settling on the surface of Mars forever.

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