The Ingenuity Mars helicopter has been an amazing success. NASA is already testing next-generation technology (video)

NASA recently released a video showing a pair of Mars helicopter rotor blades being tested at the agency Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Jet Propulsion Laboratory). The test was conducted on September 15, just one day before NASA’s test cleverness The helicopter made a record flight on the Red Planet.

With the great success achieved by Ingenuity, NASA It plans to incorporate helicopter-like drones in the future Mars missions also, built with more powerful designs than its predecessor, has completed 66 flights, and counting. The new twin-rotor system recently tested at JPL features two carbon fiber blades more than 50 inches (1.3 meters) in diameter. That’s about 4 inches (10 centimeters) longer than the Ingenuity.