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Took color images while hovering at its farthest point from takeoff. [24] The Perseverance rover recorded both audio and video of Ingenuity in flight, [26] making the helicopter the first interplanetary vehicle whose sound was recorded off Earth. 5 May 7, 2021 at 19:26 [27] (Sol 76) 108.2 10 m (33 ft) 130.84 m (429.3 ft) 2 m/s (4.5 mph)
Ingenuity, nicknamed Ginny, is an autonomous NASA helicopter that operated on Mars from 2021 to 2024 as part of the Mars 2020 mission. Ingenuity made its first flight on 19 April 2021, demonstrating that flight is possible in the extremely thin atmosphere of Mars, and becoming the first aircraft to conduct a powered and controlled extra-terrestrial flight.
The Mars 2020 mission, consisting of the rover Perseverance and helicopter Ingenuity, was launched on July 30, 2020, and landed in Jezero crater on Mars on February 18, 2021. [1] As of February 19, 2025, Perseverance has been on the planet for 1423 sols (1462 total days ; 4 years, 1 day ).
The Mars Ingenuity helicopter has reestablished contact with NASA after a 63-day silence that began shortly before its 52nd flight ended in April.
Ingenuity lost just one navigation photo, but that made it tilt back and forth in the air on the way to its most daring Mars landing yet. Ingenuity lost just one navigation photo, but that made it ...
The launch of Mars 2020 was the third of three space missions sent toward Mars during the July 2020 Mars launch window, with missions also launched by the national space agencies of the United Arab Emirates (the Emirates Mars Mission with the orbiter Hope on July 19, 2020) and China (the Tianwen-1 mission on July 23, 2020, with an orbiter ...
Kevin Winter—Getty Images. Amazon has become the latest major company to order staff to return to the office five days a week, effectively ending working from home at the $1.99 trillion tech giant.
So far, the Mars helicopter Ingenuity is the only aircraft [2] [3] ever to fly on Mars, completing 72 successful flights covering 17.242 km (10.714 mi) in 2 hours, 8 minutes and 48 seconds of flight time. [4] Ingenuity operated on Mars for 1042 sols (1071 total days; 1 year, 341 days), until it was retired following rotor blade damage. [5] [6]