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In this illustration, NASAs Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flies above the surface of the Red Planet with the agency's Perseverance rover close by.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASAs Ingenuity Mars Helicopter team will discuss plans for the rotorcrafts remaining flight campaign during a virtual media briefing at 12:30 p.m. EDT (9:30 a.m. PDT) Friday, April 30. The helicopter has flown successfully three times and completed its mission objectives, and engineers at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California aim to push the limits of what this experiment can do.
The briefing will stream live on the NASA JPL YouTube channel, the NASA app and the agencys website.
Briefing participants include:
- Lori Glaze, director of NASAs Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters
- MiMi Aung, Ingenuity project manager at JPL
- J. Bob Balaram, Ingenuity chief engineer at JPL
- Ken Farley, Perseverance project scientist at Caltech
- Jennifer Trosper, Perseverance rover deputy project manager at JPL
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