ISRO planning another Mars mission, to send lander with a helicopter to Red Planet: Report
Isro) is reportedly planning another ambitious mission to Mars.
As per reports, ISRO is planning to send a lander to the Red Planet. The lander after touching down on the Mars surface will deploy a rover as well as a rotocopter (helicopter), reports claimed.
As reported, the Indian space agency is planning to send a drone or rotocopter to Mars. The drone will be like that of Nasa's Ingenuity quadcopter. The Ingenuity logged 72 flights over three years at Mars. It accumulated more than two hours of flight time, travelling 18 kilometers. That's more than 14 times farther than planned, according to NASA. It soared as high as 24 metres and hit speeds of up to 36 kmph.
As per reports, Isro's rotorcraft is still in the conceptual stage. It is expected to have several instruments such as temperature sensor, humidity sensor, pressure sensor, wind speed sensor, electric field sensor, trace species and dust sensor.
The helicopter is expected to fly as high as 100 metres in the thin Martian air to profile the atmosphere of the Red Planet.
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According to reports, the drone is said to be equipped with an instrument suite named the Martian Boundary Layer Explorer
