See how the Mars Helicopter Delivery System will get Ingenuity safely to the surface of the Red Planet, where it will try the first experimental powered flight on another world. https://t.co ...

Ingenuity flight on Mars. A NASA animation of the Ingenuity helicopter flying not far from its parent craft. The helicopter is the first of its kind on another planet — but if it's successful ...

Mars helicopter Ingenuity: Flying on Mars. NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity captured this photo if its shadow on the Martian surface during its second flight on April 22, 2021.

The Ingenuity craft is now flying over untested, rough Martian terrain. During the helicopter’s 13th flight, on September 4, Ingenuity (indicated with the white circle in the video above) took ...

On Earth, helicopters typically can't generate enough lift to fly above about 25,000 feet, said JPL Director Laurie Leshin. On Mars, she said, the atmosphere is roughly equivalent to an altitude ...

The helicopter is flying again, Ingenuity team lead Teddy Tzanetos told the Washington Post, and its longevity has inspired the team to include helicopters modeled off it in a future Mars mission ...

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter conducted its 63rd Mars flight, flying 1,901 feet (579 meters) horizontally. Credit: Space.com | ...

Ingenuity, the tiny helicopter that has hovered over Mars 55 times since April 2021, will continue mapping the planet's surface as long as it can still fly, the former team lead at NASA's Jet ...

This image of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, visible at the top right of center, was taken by the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter during its 54th flight on Aug. 3, 2023.

When NASA’s Perseverance rover launches at the end of this month, it willl carry a helicopter named Ingenuity. It will be the first helicopter to attempt flight on another planet.

The news of adding helicopters to the Mars Sample Return mission comes just over a year after the first aircraft in history took powered flight on another planet, when NASA’s Ingenuity ...

NASA is retiring Ingenuity, its mini Mars helicopter, a week after it was damaged during its 72nd flight. The spindly overachiever made history as the first aircraft to complete a powered ...