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 ...

Two years into one of NASA’s most ambitious missions, the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter continue to ...

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 ...

In this captivating video, we follow the dramatic journey of NASA’s Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity helicopter during ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...