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Ingenuity, nicknamed Ginny, is an autonomous NASA helicopter that operated on Mars from 2021 to 2024 as part of the Mars 2020 mission. Ingenuity made its first flight on April 19, 2021, demonstrating that flight is possible in the extremely thin atmosphere of Mars, and becoming the first aircraft to conduct a powered and controlled extra ...
Apr 8, 2024 · Strapped to the Mars Perseverance rover's belly for the journey to Mars was a technology demonstration — the Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, which completed 72 historic flights and became the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on another planet.
Jul 30, 2020 · The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was a small aircraft carried to the surface of the Red Planet attached to the belly of the Perseverance rover. Ingenuity’s mission was experimental in nature and completely independent of the rover’s science mission.
Apr 19, 2021 · Monday, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet.
Nov 18, 2021 · Video footage from NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover provides a big-picture perspective of the 13th flight of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. The 160.5-second reconnaissance sortie involved flying into challenging terrain and taking images of a specific rocky outcrop from multiple angles.
Overview: NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has completed 72 flights since first taking to the skies above the Red Planet, ending its mission on Jan. 25, 2024. Look at the archived mission updates written by the Mars Helicopter team.
Apr 13, 2023 · NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter made history when it achieved the first powered, controlled flight on another planet on April 19, 2021. A little less than two years later, on April 13, 2023, it completed its 50th flight. Here are some highlights from the rotorcraft’s journeys on the Red Planet.
Apr 19, 2021 · Monday, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet.
Apr 22, 2021 · The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter project is a high-risk, high-reward technology demonstration. If Ingenuity were to encounter difficulties during its 30-sol mission, the science-gathering of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover mission wouldn’t be impacted.
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is small but mighty. In a mere six years, it went from being an implausible prospect to a 4-pound (1.8-kg), space-certified companion to Mars aboard the Perseverance rover. And when Ingenuity arrives at Mars, it will aim to push the limits of flight.
