NASA's Perseverance rover's Mastcam-Z camera captured the Ingenuity helicopter's 47th Mars flight. Credit: Space.com | ...

The NASA Perseverance rover's left Mastcam-Z camera captured an image of Mars helicopter Ingenuity. The little Red Planet ...

A featureless stretch of terrain confused the helicopter’s navigation system resulting in a hard landing that snapped its rotor blades. A featureless stretch of terrain confused the helicopter’s ...

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, right, stands near the apex of a sand ripple in an image taken by Perseverance on Feb. 24, 2024, about five weeks after the rotorcraft’s final flight. Part of one of ...

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 ...

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 powered, ...

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It’s been nearly a year since the record-breaking Ingenuity helicopter broke a blade, ending the airborne ventures of the first powered, controlled aircraft to take flight on another planet. Now, NASA ...

In 2020, NASA launched the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter as part of its Mars 2020 mission, hitching the small rotorcraft aboard the Perseverance rover. The craft touched down on Mars' Jezero Crater on 18 ...