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Ingenuity helicopter experiences first delayed flight due to bad weather on Mars - CNN

Ingenuity helicopter experiences first delayed flight due to bad weather on Mars - CNN

Ingenuity helicopter experiences first delayed flight due to bad weather on Mars - CNN
Jan 20, 2022 1 min, 6 secs

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The Ingenuity helicopter, which was slated to take to Martian skies on January 5, had to push its 19th flight back because of an unusually strong regional dust storm on Mars, according to NASA.

The arrival of autumn on Mars is known as the "dusty season" on Mars because it's when the amount of dust lofted in the atmosphere increases globally and remains this way through winter.

The gathering storm

The Ingenuity team was in for a surprise when an unusually strong dust storm cropped up in the Jezero Crater region on the first day of 2022, arriving well ahead of the dusty season.

"In fact, we have never seen a storm of this strength so early in the Mars year before," wrote Jonathan Bapst and Michael Mischna, members of the Ingenuity Weather and Environment Team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, in an update.

Perseverance first spotted the approach of the January storm as dust lifted around the two robotic explorers in Jezero Crater.

From orbit, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter observed an expanding regional dust storm moving from the southern hemisphere to the northern hemisphere on Mars.

Perseverance's weather station reflected the changes caused by the storm.

The storm has since cleared and Ingenuity is once again preparing for flight.

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