Almost one year ago, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter performed ... Ingenuity rode to Mars attached to the underside of the Perseverance rover, aiming to complete just five flights.

"She still has one final gift for us, which is that she's now going to continue on as a weather station of sorts." ...

Grip added that, while the team's investigation is over, it is far from complete ... Ingenuity proved to be wildly successful. The helicopter was designed to make only five flights on Mars ...

Despite its crash, Ingenuity proved to be wildly successful. The helicopter was designed to make only five flights on Mars, and ended up making 72. Because it was only a flight demonstrator ...

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NASA engineers only intended the Mars Perseverance Rover’s Ingenuity helicopter to complete a maximum of five experimental test flights over 30 days in 2021. The experimental vehicle ...

Future space helicopters ... as NASA completes history's first interplanetary aircraft crash inquiry. The yet-to-be-released technical report explains why the space agency's Ingenuity Mars ...

Engineers have detailed the helicopter's remarkable journey as the first aircraft to achieve powered flight on Mars and what happened on ... designed as a technology demonstration, Ingenuity was ...