The City of La Cañada Flintridge celebrated the Jet Propulsion Propulsion Laboratory and Mars exploration with its 2025 float ...

The featureless, rippled ground confused the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter.

Months after NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter crash-landed into the dusty surface of Mars, scientists have finally figured out what went wrong. Ingenuity was the first aircraft to ever fly on ...

the rover sent back pictures showing the helicopter had sustained major damage to its rotors. Flight controllers initially suspected Ingenuity made a hard landing at a steep angle, causing its ...

When NASA's Ingenuity helicopter took flight on Mars in April 2021, it marked a historic moment in space exploration. This small, solar-powered rotorcraft became the first aircraft to achieve ...

(NASA/JPL-Caltech) Ingenuity's 72nd, and final, flight started normally. The little helicopter was supposed to just lift up, hover for a bit, take some photos, and land again – a routine outing ...

NASA's 2024 started with a crash that brought an abrupt end to one of its most remarkable missions of recent years.

In fact, if you were to ask the helicopter itself, Ingenuity would report that everything ... meaning it can keep taking measurements and images every Martian sol (a solar day on Mars).

Ingenuity, NASA’s Mars Helicopter, surpassed expectations as the first aircraft to operate on another planet. Despite being designed for five test flights over 30 days, it completed 72 flights across ...

Six days later, the helicopter beamed back images that showed it had sustained severe rotor-blade damage and would no longer be able to fly. Read more: NASA Ingenuity: Meet the woman launching a ...

Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) gave an update on the downed Ingenuity Mars helicopter on Wednesday ... recording telemetry, taking images every single sol and storing ...