Mars Helicopter Breaks Silence, Calls NASA After 63-Day Blackout
NASA's Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, has regained contact with mission control after a 63-day communication dropout. The team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab implemented a re-contact protocol, driving the Perseverance rover over a hill to establish a connection with Ingenuity. Now that contact has been re-established, mission control is reviewing the data collected during the outage, and Ingenuity appears to be in good health for its next flight.