Nasa’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter transmitted its final message to Earth and will now serve as an immobile data-gathering unit on the red planet’s surface, the space agency said last month.

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 ...

Ingenuity’s mission was initially envisioned as a short-term technology demonstration, aiming to prove that powered flight is possible in Mars’ thin atmosphere. However, the helicopter exceeded all ...

A proposed Mars helicopter mission would search for signs of life, water and future human footholds in a vast volcanic canyon network. The little Ingenuity drone proved that helicopters can play a ...

Although the helicopter, aptly named Ingenuity, is only a technology demonstrator, and flight operations will occupy but a small fraction of the time Mars 2020 is devoting to its science missions ...

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter crashed on Mars after a software glitch during its 72nd flight on January 18, 2024, the agency announced at a briefing on December 11 during the American Geophysical ...

NASA’s Mars Ingenuity helicopter made history early Monday when the drone became the first powered craft to fly on another world. In this video, WSJ visits the company NASA contracted to build ...