As the two-year landing anniversary of NASA’s Perseverance rover and its small scouting helicopter Ingenuity draws near, the ...

Although the helicopter, aptly named Ingenuity, is only a technology demonstrator ... Rather, as the video below (source: NASA/JPL) demonstrates, after a debris shield is jettisoned and the ...

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NASA's tiny Ingenuity helicopter now has 40 off-Earth flights under its belt. The 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) Ingenuity lifted off yet again on Thursday (Jan. 19), staying aloft for nearly 92 seconds on a ...

NASA's Perseverance rover just caught another glimpse of its pioneering robotic cousin. The car-sized Perseverance snapped a photo recently of the Ingenuity helicopter as the 4-pound (1.8 ...

The Mars helicopter Ingenuity has made its third flight of the year, which also marks its 40th flight since it landed in the Jezero crater along with the Perseverance rover in February 2021.

An curved arrow pointing right. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Håvard Grip, who is the chief pilot for the Ingenuity Mars helicopter at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.