Send a drone to explore the red planet

6:22 p.m. Friday, August 30, 2019

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NASA researchers are leading a new experiment by attaching a drone to a small explorer and launching it on Mars.

NASA officials announced that engineers from the agency's propulsion laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., Were working on connecting a small helicopter March to March 2020, where the duo is expected to be launched in July 2020 and landed in the area of ​​Jezero crater on the red planet in February 2021.

"Our mission is to demonstrate that an autonomous and controlled flight can be carried out in the very fine atmosphere of Mars," said the Mars 2020 project leader.