The little Ingenuity drone proved that helicopters can play a revolutionary role in Mars exploration. Now, NASA is thinking ...

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 ...

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.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announced earlier this year that the incredible Mars helicopter was grounded for good after it suffered damage to its rotor blades. Although it cannot fly, the ...

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NASA compared Ingenuity's flight to the feat achieved in 1903 by the Wright brothers, who made the first motor flight. Morillo recalled that the helicopter carries under its rotors a small piece ...

Last week I was sitting in a waiting room when the news came across my phone that Ingenuity, the helicopter that NASA put on Mars three years ago, would fly no more. The news hit me hard ...