NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has successfully completed a 14th flight on Mars — its first since a two-week blackout caused by the Red Planet’s position in space.
The US space agency was forced to pause most of its robotic Mars missions for safety reasons when the planet moved behind the sun from Earth’s perspective earlier this month.
Engineers were worried the solar conjunction might lead to ‘unexpected behaviour’ from its spacecraft if they tried to communicate with them, so instead paused