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  2. Ingenuity (helicopter) - Wikipedia

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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 19 April 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-terrestrial flight.

  3. List of Ingenuity flights - Wikipedia

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    Ingenuity helicopter at Wright Brothers Field on Mars before first flight. The NASA helicopter Ingenuity on Mars made the first powered controlled flights by an aircraft on a planet other than Earth. [1] [2] It first flew on April 19, 2021, after landing on February 18 attached to the underside of the Perseverance rover. [3]

  4. 'Little helicopter that could' takes last flight on Mars - AOL

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    Ingenuity was expected to fly just five times over 30 days. In the end, it logged 72 flights over the course of three Earth years. 'Little helicopter that could' takes last flight on Mars

  5. Mars aircraft - Wikipedia

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    A Mars aircraft is a vehicle capable of sustaining powered flight in the atmosphere of Mars. So far, the Mars helicopter Ingenuity is the only aircraft [2] [3] ever to fly on Mars, completing 72 successful flights covering 17.242 km (10.714 mi) in 2 hours, 8 minutes and 48 seconds of flight time. [4] Ingenuity operated on Mars for 1042 sols ...

  6. Nasa’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity is dead, space agency says

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    Nasa’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity will never fly again, the space agency gas said.. The pioneering robot vehicle was the first ever to achieve powered and controlled flight on another world. It ...

  7. NASA's Mars helicopter will attempt a perilous landing in ...

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    Ingenuity has embarked on a fresh mission to scout Martian terrain. Its next flight will take it to a new, unsurveyed area. NASA's Mars helicopter will attempt a perilous landing in unknown ...

  8. NASA wants to use its Mars helicopter to support Perseverance ...

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    After making history and completing two additional flights, NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter could soon attempt even more ambitious forays into the skies of the Red Planet.

  9. NASA's historic Mars helicopter Ingenuity grounded for good ...

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    NASA said on Thursday its Mars robot helicopter Ingenuity, the first vehicle to achieve powered, controlled flight on another world, has been grounded for good after flying dozens of times over ...