In the mid-1960s, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, embarked on its pioneering first attempts to investigate Mars. After one failed attempt in 1964, well before Apollo 11's ...

Flying a helicopter on Earth is a remarkable engineering achievement. Flying one on Mars, where the atmosphere is less than 1% as dense as Earth's, was once considered nearly impossible. Yet on 19 ...

NASA Perseverance rover's Mastcam-Z captured the Ingenuity helicopter's 54th flight on Mars. A camera onboard Ingenuity ...

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter successfully completed the first-ever powered flight of an aircraft on another planet, reaching an altitude of 10 feet for 40 seconds on Mars. This landmark achievement ...

In 2021, a small helicopter flew through the skies of Mars.Spinning its propellers to float in the sky on a planet far away ...

The final downlink shift by the Ingenuity team was a time to reflect on a highly successful mission — and to prepare the first aircraft on another world for its new role. Engineers working on NASA’s ...

This NASA visualization details the full extent of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's mission. Follow along from flight 1 to 72 as the data overlay updates to show the total distance and flight time, ...

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flew faster and farther on Sunday than it had in any previous flights or any tests on Earth. The device flew 50 meters, over half the length of a football field, at a ...

The Ingenuity helicopter successfully completed a second flight on Mars Thursday, and it was even more challenging than the first. Ingenuity autonomously flew for almost 52 seconds this time, climbing ...