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 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA said on Thursday its Mars robot helicopter Ingenuity, the first vehicle to achieve powered, controlled flight on another world, has been grounded for good after flying ...

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 ...

An image of the Ingenuity Mars helicopter in flight April 22, 2021, seen by the Mastcam-Z camera on the nearby Perseverance rover. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS Updated 6:45 p.m. Eastern with ...

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 Perseverance rover's Mastcam-Z captured the Ingenuity helicopter's 54th flight on Mars last month. A camera onboard ...

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 ...

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 ...