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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]
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.
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Succeeds in Historic First Flight - Apr 19, 2021 [ IMAGE] NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took this shot, capturing its own shadow, while hovering over the Martian surface on April 19, 2021, during the first instance of powered, controlled flight on another planet. It used its navigation camera, which ...
NASA made history this morning after the Mars Ingenuity took off from the planet's surface. It marked the first flight for the four-pound helicopter and the first powered, controlled flight of an ...
The helicopter experienced an emergency landing on its previous flight, flight 71. During flight 72, Ingenuity rose about 40 feet (12 meters) in the air, hovered for 4.5 seconds and began to ...
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter will attempt its first flight on Mars. If successful, it will be the first powered, controlled flight conducted on another planet. NASA helicopter set for historic ...
Ingenuity: Helicopter Successful First aerodynamic flight on another planet. Landed with Perseverance rover on 18 February 2021. [42] Deployed from rover on 3 April 2021. First flight achieved on April 19, 2021. [43] Retired on 25 January 2024 due to sustained rotor blade damage. – Psyche: Psyche: 13 October 2023 NASA United States: Flyby ...
The video shows Ingenuity hovering in the middle of its first test flight 10 feet above the Martian surface, the first time that humans have successfully flown an aircraft on an alien planet.