MiMi Aung
After six months on Mars, NASA’s tiny copter is still flying high
It was only supposed to fly five times. And yet NASA's helicopter on Mars, Ingenuity, has completed 12 flights and it isn't ready to retire.
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Given its stunning and unexpected success, the U.S. space agency has extended Ingenuity's mission indefinitely.
NASA's Mars helicopter takes flight, 1st for another planet
NASA's experimental Mars helicopter rose from the dusty red surface into the planet's thin air on April 19, achieving the first powered flight on another planet.