Context:
NASA regains contact with Ingenuity
Ingenuity:
- Launched by – NASA
- Mission to – Mars
- Carried by – Perseverance Rover
- Significance –
- 1st aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet.
- Solar-powered
- Has a wireless communication system
Mars:
- Also called – ‘Red Planet’.
- Distance – 4th planet from the Sun
- Size – 2nd smallest planet in the Solar System.
- Mars is about half the size of Earth.
- Moons – 2 moons called Phobos and Deimos
- Important Missions to MARS
- Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) or Mangalyaan – ISRO
- Perseverance – NASA
- Tianwen-1 and Zhurong – China
- ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter – Collaboration between the European Space Agency and the Russian space agency Roscosmos
- Hope – UAE
- MAVEN – NASA
- Curiosity – NASA
Source: The Indian Express
Previous Year Question
The experiment will employ a trio of spacecraft flying in formation in the shape of an equilateral triangle that has sides one million kilometers long, with lasers shining between the craft.” The experiment in question refers to
[UPSC Civil Services Exam – 2020 Prelims]
(a) Voyager-2
(b) New Horizons
(c) LISA Pathfinder
(d) Evolved LISA
Answer: (d)
