NASA’s robot helicopter Ingenuity completed its final mission after a historic 72 flights on Mars. via REUTERS. Ingenuity ultimately buzzed over the Martian terrain 14 times farther than ...

NASA engineer Travis Brown described the episode in a blog post last week, offering a dramatic look into the agency’s exploration of Mars, and the incredible resilience of the Ingenuity helicopter.

NASA plans to send the Sample Retrieval Lander to Mars in 2028. That spacecraft, about the size of a two-car garage, will land on the surface and be loaded with rock and soil samples collected by ...

Ingenuity, the little Mars helicopter that became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet, can no longer fly due to rotor blade damage, NASA announced ...

Much has been written about the plucky exploits of NASA's small Ingenuity helicopter on Mars. And all of the accolades are deserved. "The little mission that could" did, flying 72 sorties across ...

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, which flew on Mars in April 2021, became the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on a planet other than Earth.

NASA is back in contact with its beloved helicopter on Mars, Ingenuity, two days after a communication blackout. Communications broke down on Thursday, when the little autonomous rotorcraft was ...

PASADENA, Calif. — The drone-like Ingenuity helicopter, designed and built at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, successfully completed a brief but historic flight above the surface ...

On April 19, 2021, the NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made history by lifting off the Jezero Crater's floor and becoming the first aircraft to fly on a celestial entity other than Earth.

After nearly 3 years on the surface of Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter is dead. NASA is investigating the cause of the helicopter’s death, but the agency says that the Ingenuity clipped one ...

Håvard Grip pilots NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, which has flown 40 times on Mars.; Flying the first interplanetary drone is like playing a strategic video game (not the joystick kind). This is ...

Mars Ingenuity helicopter's 59th flight was captured by the Perseverance rover's Left Mastcam-Z camera. Credit: Credit: Space ...