Linux also landed on Mars

The NASA Mars rover, Perseverance, will be equipped with a small helicopter Ingenuity and will make its first flight from Mars.

Launched from the launch facility at Cape Canaveral Air Force Base in the U.S. on July 30, 2020, the facility traveled to Mars, 472 million kilometers from Earth for 203 days, and finally landed on Mars on February 19, 2021.

Perseverance begins its mission to Mars right away, and is taking soil or rock samples with the mounted camera. These personalities do not explore the vast land of Mars, but perform exploration missions with Ingenuity, a small helicopter.

This is the first time a device equipped with Linux has been flying on Mars, according to JPL’s chief engineer at the Jet Propulsion Research Center. It explains that it was using open source a few years ago. The software framework is a name with the Inje New itty Prime F. (fprime) github has released the source code is.

JPL explains that because it uses an open source operating system and flight software framework, it is possible to purchase and reproduce commercial parts, and this is a kind of open source victory. To reveal the significance of open source contributing to the development of Ingenuity.

Through Twitter, Mars has become the second planet with more Linux-equipped computers than Windows. Another news is that Mars has a 100% share of electric vehicles. . Related information can be found here.