NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, the first aircraft to achieve powered flight on another planet, is now the first drone ...
The featureless, rippled ground confused the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter.
"She still has one final gift for us, which is that she's now going to continue on as a weather station of sorts." Ingenuity may be down, but it's not out. Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion ...
NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity seen flying during a fight. The Perseverance rover can be seen in the distance during the flight in an enhanced color image. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA ...
NASA's 2024 started with a crash that brought an abrupt end to one of its most remarkable missions of recent years.
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, which flew on Mars in April 2021, became the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on a planet other than Earth.
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 ...
The otherworldly helicopter, with its 36 blades, is the size of an SUV—a major upgrade from Ingenuity's four blades.
The now-defunct Mars helicopter Ingenuity flew over and snapped pictures in April 2022 of debris flung onto the Red ...
The "Mars Chopper" as NASA is calling it, appears bulkier compared to its predecessor and has a greater payload capacity.
A shadow of a broken helicopter rotor on Mars However, JPL scientists added that, aside from its mission-ending rotor damage, Ingenuity remains in otherwise good health. In fact, if you were to ...