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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.
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.
Ingenuity helicopter at Wright Brothers Field on Mars before first flight. The NASA helicopter Ingenuity on Mars made the first powered controlled flights by an aircraft on a planet other than Earth. [1] [2] It first flew on April 19, 2021, after landing on February 18 attached to the underside of the Perseverance rover. [3] Ingenuity weighs 1. ...
Ingenuity was expected to fly just five times over 30 days. In the end, it logged 72 flights over the course of three Earth years. 'Little helicopter that could' takes last flight on Mars
The Ingenuity Mars helicopter, the first aircraft to operate and fly on another planet, has come to an end after sustaining damage to one or more of its rotor blades. ... But new wrinkles have ...
The Mars Ingenuity helicopter has reestablished contact with NASA after a 63-day silence that began shortly before its 52nd flight ended in April.
NASA announced that the Mars Ingenuity helicopter is alive and well and was successfully recharged while in mid-spaceflight. Mars helicopter reaches "big milestone" on flight to planet Skip to ...
Ingenuity has embarked on a fresh mission to scout Martian terrain. Its next flight will take it to a new, unsurveyed area. NASA's Mars helicopter will attempt a perilous landing in unknown ...