Around three days ago, Nasa successfully landed the Perseverance rover on Mars.
On its way to Mars, the rover was accompanied by Ingenuity, a tiny helicopter.
If everything goes well, Ingenuity will become the first powered flight on Mars.
So heres everything you oughta know about the journey of Linux to Mars.
For the manufacturing of this helicopter, NASA has only used off-the-shelf hardware and software.
The helicopter drone runs on a box powered by a few generations old Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor.
As for software, NASA developed a Linux-based open-source software framework that goes by the name F prime.
source: www.techworm.net
