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Linux had a big moment on April 19: The open source operating system powered Ingenuity, a NASA helicopter that was the first powered aircraft to fly on Mars.




Nat Friedman, (Former)CEO of GitHub, said a review of Ingenuity's code found that nearly 12,000 developers contributed to Ingenuity's software. To honour their efforts, Friedman wrote, GitHub "worked with JPL to place a new Mars 2020 Helicopter Mission badge on the GitHub profile of every developer who contributed to the specific versions of any open source projects and libraries used by Ingenuity."


Ingenuity isn't meant to showcase technical prowess or support NASA's Perseverance mission. It's a demonstration meant to show what open source can do, in partnership with NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)'s open source F' framework.


GitHub wants to honour every developer who might not know their code helped push this project forward. They're also honouring non-code contributors, a practice that's still sadly rare in open source.




Here is the open source flight code that the NASA Mars drone is running


source: www.twitter.com,  www.wikipedia.com, credits: www.opensource.com - Lauren Maffeo ,

Image courtesy : NASA/JPL-Caltech


**AIm of this article is to notify the readers who had missed this valuable open source news.


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