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NASA restores contact with Mars helicopter Ingenuity after communications dropout on latest flight
Everything appears to be fine for our Red Planet robots — NASA can talk to Ingenuity again.
However, I'm pleased to report that Ingenuity has officially regained communication with ground control and continues to surpass the limitations scientists once thought it'd need to live by. It landed on its target less than a year later, and soon began its mission of flying above the Red Planet to foremost gather information about whether it's possible to control an airborne vehicle on a world with a gravitational pull and atmosphere different from those of Earth. Everything seemed fine during the probe's 72nd hop on Mars' red surface, as it successfully climbed to an expected maximum altitude of 40 feet (12 meters) and communicated its ascension status with Perseverance, NASA explained.
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