 |  NASA plans careful restart for Mars helicopter after quiet period
 3 October 2021
The Mars helicopter Ingenuity is on its own without NASA’s guidance for two weeks as the
sun interferes with communications to the Red Planet. Sometime around Oct. 14, NASA
plans to check in with the helicopter and the Mars rover Perseverance. Previous rovers
have endured so-called solar conjunction communication dropouts, but never has a tiny
aircraft sat alone on the planet for so long.
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