After nearly three years of exploring Mars, Ingenuity apparently suffered damage during its last flight, bringing its amazing mission to an end. Just one week ago, on January 18, 2024, NASA's ...

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter successfully completed its second Mars flight on April 22 – the 18th sol, or Martian day, of its experimental flight test window. Lasting 51.9 seconds, the flight added ...

Designed to fly just five times over 30 days, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter lasted nearly three years, soaring across the surface of Mars and logging 72 flights before a hard or tilted landing that ...

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity seen flying during a fight. The Perseverance rover can be seen in the distance during the ...

A new video from NASA now brings all of the 72 flights of the Ingenuity Mars helicopter in one, and it shows off the many ventures of the tiny space chopper across the Martian skyline. Initially ...

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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has completed its 50th flight on Mars. The first aircraft on another world reached the half-century mark on April 13, traveling over 1,057.09 feet (322.2 meters) in ...

The aircraft carried out its final flight on Jan. 18. Imagery and data returned to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, revealed that one or more of the chopper’s rotor blades were damaged during its ...

Nearly a year after NASA's Ingenuity helicopter crash landed on Mars following an extended, remarkably successful mission, engineers have determined the most likely culprit: Flight over sand drifts so ...

Creating an aircraft that will fly in the Martian atmosphere is an engineering tour de force. The aircraft must be able to operate in an environment that has approximately 1% of the atmospheric ...