Saying goodbye is never easy, especially from a world away. The Ingenuity Mars helicopter team convened one last time on Tuesday (April 16) to oversee a transmission from the little rotorcraft ...

Ingenuity started its journey on Mars strapped to the belly of the Perseverance rover. Back in 2021, NASA said it hoped that the helicopter would perform at least five experimental test flights over ...

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 ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The Perseverance rover is the star of the Mars 2020 mission, but the Mars Ingenuity ...

Thanks to the invaluable data gathered from Ingenuity’s flights, the next generation of Mars helicopters will be even more capable. Future vehicles will carry scientific payloads, cover greater ...

NASA is initiating plans for a second helicopter mission to Mars, building on the achievements of the Ingenuity quadcopter, which has successfully demonstrated the viability of aerial exploration ...