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NASA Mars launch: Watch LIVE as rover and helicopter are launched to the Red Planet
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mirror.co.ukA mission to Mars that will hopefully see a helicopter fly on another planet for the first time is due to take off this morning.
At 12.50pm GMT NASA's Perseverance rover will be blasted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral. It follows the UAE's Hope probe on July 19 and China's Tianwen-1 launch seven days ago.
What sets today's launch apart is the presence of an aircraft. Aboard Perseverance is a four-pound (1.8 kg) autonomous helicopter named Ingenuity that is due to test powered flight on Mars for the first time. “We as human beings have never flown a rotorcraft, a helicopter, anywhere outside of Earth’s atmosphere, so it’s really a Wright Brothers moment on another planet,” said MiMi Aung, Ingenuity’s lead engineer, during the press
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