Ingenuity, the tiny helicopter on Mars that became the first ... Will more helicopters be sent to Mars? NASA plans to send the Sample Retrieval Lander to Mars in 2028. That spacecraft, about ...

How has Ingenuity performed so well? USA TODAY spoke with Anderson, Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Operations Lead at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Dave Lavery, NASA Program Executive for Solar ...

NASA is retiring Ingenuity, its mini Mars helicopter, a week after it was damaged during its 72nd flight. The spindly overachiever made history as the first aircraft to complete a powered ...

NASA flies a helicopter on Mars, the first time an aircraft has flown on another planet Still, Ingenuity was never meant to be more than an $80 million proof-of-concept. It hitched a ride to Mars ...

A photo of Ingenuity taken by the Perseverance rover in April 2023. The helicopter arrived on Mars attached to Perseverance in February 2021. NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU / MSSS After exploring Mars ...

Through missions like Ingenuity, NASA is paving the way for future ... them in the Martian skies to capture the moment. “The Mars helicopter would have never flown once, much less 72 times ...

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity recently completed a pair of flights. See the first imagery from flight 33 and a time-lapse ...

It's extraordinarily hard to fly on Mars. But NASA's Ingenuity helicopter did it — 72 times. On Jan. 25, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson gloomily announced that the helicopter's 72nd flight was ...

You can get in touch with Jess by emailing j.thomson@newsweek.com. Months after NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter crash-landed into the dusty surface of Mars, scientists have finally figured out ...

Engineers working on NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter assembled for one last time in a control room at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on Tuesday, April 16 ...

NASA has performed a rigorous technical analysis of the Ingenuity helicopter’s final flight on Mars. The experimental rotorcraft was the first to achieve powered flight on another celestial body.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/CNRS Ingenuity may be down ...