Ingenuity proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that a helicopter can operate on another planet. Over 72 flights, the little ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fluid-rock interactions on ancient Mars may have produced abundant magnetic minerals that preserved unusually intense records ...

A small Mars-copter confirmed that flight on other planets is possible. But before it could be deployed, Ingenuity had to travel around 480 million kilometers just to reach its mission site.

Perseverance is also taking along Ingenuity, a robotic helicopter. It’s genuinely ingenious because Mars’ air is 160 times thinner than Earth’s. Ingenuity is a testbed for the future use of ...

Dr. Lee is undoubtedly one of those fans, as one of his roles is as the Founder of the Mars Institute, a non-profit dedicated ...