New images from NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter reveal how badly the craft's rotor blades were damaged following its final, mission-ending flight on Jan. 18. The images, taken with Ingenuity's ...

There's no way Ingenuity could fly through this. Ingenuity, the 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) helicopter that journeyed to Mars with NASA's Perseverance rover, was grounded for good after suffering a ...

It was a routine flight for the rotorcraft, which had proved that powered, controlled flight was possible on another planet, ...

The Ingenuity autonomous helicopter surpassed all expectations to fly dozens of missions over several years on the Red Planet, only stopping this year when an accident damaged one of its rotors ...

Part of one of Ingenuity’s rotor blades lies on the surface about ... images taken by Ingenuity and beamed back to Earth showed damage to the helicopter blades that meant it would be unable ...

The success of Ingenuity is very special ... leading to severe damage to its rotor blades, still the communication systems are not destroyed. NASA has found that the avionics battery sensors ...

However, images later revealed significant damage to the rotor blades. NASA attributed the crash to faulty navigation system data caused by Mars’ uniform terrain. Despite the crash, Ingenuity is ...

Ingenuity rode to Mars attached to the underside ... flights before a navigation glitch caused it to land hard and damage the rotors. Now that we know a rotorcraft can efficiently explore Mars ...

Source: NASA/JPL The most striking difference between Ingenuity and a more traditional multicopter is the choice to make it a dual-rotor design. There would have been no way to go with a ...

Bottom right, a zoomed view shows Ingenuity with its damaged rotor blades. Bottom left, a similar closeup reveals one of the rotor blade tips, located around 15 metres away from the helicopter.