Ingenuity, the 19-inch-tall robotic helicopter on Mars, is not only the first vehicle to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet – it’s continuing to fly, exceeding all ...

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity recently completed a pair of flights. See the first imagery from flight 33 and a time-lapse from flight 32. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech | ed ...

When NASA's Ingenuity helicopter took flight on Mars in April 2021, it marked a historic moment in space exploration. This small, solar-powered rotorcraft became the first aircraft to achieve ...

The investigation into the Mars helicopter Ingenuity accident has found that the "lack of surface texture gave the navigation system too little information to work with,” likely causing the rotors ...

After almost three years on the Red Planet and 72 flights into the thin Martian atmosphere, NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter is ending its mission due to a broken rotor blade. Mars just got a bit ...

Scientists eventually located Ingenuity after six days of searching as the helicopter’s companion on Mars, the Perseverance rover, crested a ridge and drove closer to where the helicopter had ...

NASA's history-making Ingenuity Mars helicopter has ended its three-year mission on the Martian planet after potentially making a crash landing during its last flight. The tiny copter took off on ...

After five test flights, the helicopter became a scout for the Perseverance rover on Mars, as the latter explored the arid environment of Jezero Crater. Ingenuity ultimately operated for nearly ...

Under the current plan, in 2030 the rover itself will deliver the sample tubes to a Mars lander for transport back home. But, if something goes wrong, a pair of small helicopters will be poised to ...

NASA’s Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, has surpassed the mission team’s expectations for the diminutive drone-like machine. Ever since its maiden flight over the Martian surface in April 2021 in ...

NASA’s Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, has taken to the skies again following a month-long break in communications with Earth. The drone-like flying machine flew for 393 meters and stayed in the air ...

“We learned a ton,” said Grip of the process the agency used to design Ingenuity, which had opened an entirely new frontier in helicopter research with its flights through Mars’s ...