NASA's Ingenuity helicopter conducted its 63rd Mars flight, flying 1,901 feet (579 meters) horizontally. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited by Steve Spaleta ...

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When NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter took off for the first time on Mars on April 19th it was a history-making moment. No manmade spacecraft had ever achieved powered flight on another planet ...

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter made spaceflight history when it lifted off from the Martian surface for the first time on Monday morning. The Perseverance rover, which carried Ingenuity nearly 300 ...

That comes into sharp focus in our first color photo snapped by the Mars Ingenuity helicopter. That was taken about 17 feet above the ground. You can clearly see the sandy red-orange Martian surface.

But after a series of escalating successes for the little aircraft, NASA decided recently to extend Ingenuity's mission by at least another month. That turned the helicopter's fifth and would-be ...

The Ingenuity helicopter is now being lowered — very carefully! — to the Martian surface beneath the belly of the Perseverance rover. (Credit: NASA/JPL/Caltech/Ken Kremer) If you want to go flying on ...

Ingenuity, a helicopter weighing only 1,800 grams, wrote a year ago a page in the history of space exploration when flying for the first time on another planet. His five planned flights on Mars ...

Along with it, the Mars Ingenuity helicopter landed safe and sound on the Red Planet, and a significant portion of the rover’s first weeks was dedicated to delivering the helicopter to its test ...

But for Case Western Reserve alumni who helped develop components for the vehicle and Ingenuity, the 4-pound mini-helicopter, that traveled with it to Mars, the journey began many years ago. Think ...

The Mars Ingenuity Helicopter’s 72 flights across Mars were filled with discovery and inspiring moments. Overcoming operational and Martian challenges, every record was set and re-broken as the ...