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Bookmark or Share- Ingenuity, NASA's "little 'copter that could" (and did!)In 2020, NASA's Perseverance rover launched for Mars with a stowaway: a tiny drone, created by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The drone, named Ingenuity, was likened to ...
- Ingenuity Mars Helicopter - NASA ScienceThe Legacy of Ingenuity. On April 19, 2021, NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made history when it completed the first powered, controlled flight on the Red Planet. It flew for the last time on January 18, 2024. Designed to be a technology demonstration that would make no more than five test flights in 30 days, the helicopter eventually ...
- NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Succeeds in Historic First FlightNASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took this shot, capturing its own shadow, while hovering over the Martian surface on April 19, 2021, during the first instance of powered, controlled flight on another planet. It used its navigation camera, which autonomously tracks the ground during flight. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
- NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Succeeds in Historic First FlightMonday, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet. The Ingenuity team at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California confirmed the flight succeeded after receiving data from the helicopter via NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover at 6:46 a.m ...
- Ingenuity (helicopter) - WikipediaIngenuity, nicknamed Ginny, is an autonomous NASA helicopter that operated on Mars from 2021 to 2024 as part of the Mars 2020 mission. Ingenuity made its first flight on April 19, 2021, demonstrating that flight is possible in the extremely thin atmosphere of Mars, and becoming the first aircraft to conduct a powered and controlled extra ...
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