Nasa is set to make history as it attempts to launch a helicopter from the surface of Mars.
If successful, it would be the first powered, controlled flight on another planet.
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The demonstration should see the Mars-copter - called Ingenuity - rise to about 3m, hover for roughly 30 seconds, swivel and then land.
But with never-tried-before technology and challenging flying conditions, the flight will be difficult to pull off.
"It feels absolutely nuts,” says Farah Alibay, a systems engineer at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
"We've been flying on Earth for just over 100 years, and now we're like, 'yeah, we're gonna go to another planet and fly'. It's crazy. But that's the beauty of exploration. That's the beauty of engineering.”
source: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56704481