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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

UPDATE: April 19, 2021, 12:39 p.m. EDT: NASA's Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, successfully performed its first flight on Monday, April 19. The helicopter flew to a height of 10 feet and stayed ...

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.

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 ...

NASA’s Mars helicopter is somehow still flying - and playing hide-and-seek June 2, 2023 Updated Fri., June 2, 2023 at 6:45 p.m. This illustration depicts the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars.

NASA's Mars Ingenuity helicopter took off on its fifth test flight Friday, but it won't be returning to the Perseverance rover this time. The helicopter took flight around 3:30 p.m. ET from Wright ...

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 ...