CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Aug. 30 (UPI) --Ingenuity, the tiny $80 million helicopter that has hovered over Mars 55 times since April 2021, will continue mapping the planet's surface as long as it can ...

It’s been a busy year on Mars for NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter, and it’s not about to slow down now. After 21 flights, the aircraft is still in excellent condition, so NASA has extended its mission ...

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity seen flying during a fight. The Perseverance rover can be seen in the distance during the ...

It has been a week of heightened apprehension on the Mars Helicopter team as we prepared a major flight challenge for Ingenuity. We uplinked instructions for the flight, which occurred Monday, July 5 ...

Ingenuity, the small helicopter that accompanied NASA's Perseverance rover to Mars, was designed to make just a handful of flight tests after the duo landed in the Red Planet's Jezero Crater in ...

Ingenuity, the 19-inch-tall robotic helicopter on Mars, is not only the first vehicle to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet – it’s continuing to fly, exceeding all expectations by ...

Ingenuity as seen by the Perseverance Mars rover in August 2023. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS A diminutive helicopter sent to Mars to demonstrate the first powered flight beyond Earth completed ...

Designed to fly just five times over 30 days, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter lasted nearly three years, soaring across the surface of Mars and logging 72 flights before a hard or tilted landing that ...

Kevin Olsen in an employee of the University of Oxford and receives funding from the UK Space Agency in support of Mars science. It is difficult to emphasise the significance of the milestone ...

It's extraordinarily hard to fly on Mars. But NASA's Ingenuity helicopter did it — 72 times. On Jan. 25, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson gloomily announced that the helicopter's 72nd flight was its ...

The planned five-flight mission is now at 21 flights and counting. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Ingenuity's flying days have ...