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Small piece of Wright brothers' 1st aircraft to fly again on Mars

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Carillon Historical Park to include a tiny piece of fabric from the 1903 Wright Flyer I on NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter — which landed on the Red Planet last month while attached to the belly of the Perseverance rover.RELATED: NASA unveils Mars helicopter flight plans to assist Perseverance roverIngenuity will attempt its own flight no sooner than April 8, and will be the first powered, controlled flight on another planet.

But NASA said flying on Mars won’t be as easy as flying on Earth. Mars boasts significant gravity and the Martian atmosphere is only 1% as dense as Earth’s at the surface.Earth gets twice as much solar energy as its outer neighbor during the day.

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