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See Ingenuity’s Flight Map: 72 Helicopter Flights on Mars
NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter became the first vehicle to achieve powered, controlled flight on another planet when it took to the...
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NASA Video Charts Ingenuity's 10-Mile Flight Path Around Mars https://petapixel.com/wp-admin/post-new.php#wpseo-meta-section-social
NASA has released a fascinating flight map that charts all the Mars avigations taken by the space agency's recently defunct Ingenuity helicopter. [Read More]
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Ingenuity, NASA's "little 'copter that could" (and did!)
In 2020, NASA's Perseverance rover launched for Mars with a stowaway: a tiny drone, created by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.The drone, named Ingenuity, was likened to a Wright Brothers' plane on Mars, making the first flight on another planet. The entire drone had to be very light, because Mars has only 1% of the atmosphere of Earth; that's hard for a flying machine. So, Ingenuity weighs only four pounds. Seeing red: Mankind gets closer to Mars ("Sunday Morning")NASA...