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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.
The same day, NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter had lost a blade, ending its mission. Ingenuity Mars Helicopter (right) stands flightless on the ground in this photo taken by NASA's Perseverance ...
The images show the historic first flight of the Ingenuity drone, recorded by the nearby ground-based Perseverance rover. Photos from NASA's Perseverance rover show the Ingenuity helicopter flying ...
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's Ingenuity helicopter has completed yet another successful flight on Mars.On Friday, NASA operations lead Teddy Tzanetos shared details of the Ingenuity's eighth flight across Mars' surface ...
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 weighs 1.8 kilograms (4.0 lb) and is
Mars is often referred to as the "Red Planet" because of the rusty, reddish-orange sandscape blanketing the planet. That comes into sharp focus in our first color photo snapped by the Mars ...
English: NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter takes off and lands in this video captured on April 25, 2021, by Mastcam-Z, an imager camera on NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. As expected, the helicopter flew out of its field of vision while completing a flight plan that took it 164 ft (50 m) downrange of the landing spot.