NASA Perseverance rover's Mastcam-Z captured the Ingenuity helicopter's 54th flight on Mars. A camera onboard Ingenuity ...
NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity last flew on Mars. Watch the time-lapse, color images and stats from the flight. Credit: ...
NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity made history again Thursday with another epic Red Planet flight. This time, controllers on Earth completed a more challenging flight by climbing to 16 feet and tilting ...
Imagine you're all alone, driving along in a rocky, unforgiving desert with no roads, no map, no GPS, and no more than one phone call a day for someone to inform you exactly where you are. That's what ...
The Ingenuity helicopter survived its first night on the freezing-cold surface of Mars, a major milestone in the rotorcraft's journey ahead of its historic first flight. Jezero Crater, an ancient lake ...
In 2020, NASA launched the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter as part of its Mars 2020 mission, hitching the small rotorcraft aboard the Perseverance rover. The craft touched down on Mars' Jezero Crater on 18 ...
Mars Global Localization (MGL), a tech similar to GPS on Earth, lets Perseverance nail down its coordinates to about 10 inches.
NASA has sent over three drones to the famed Death Valley in California for a team to test the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in extreme conditions. The space agency launched this test in hopes of ...
Last week, a group of scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena made mankind's first powered flight on another planet — 183 million miles away. It involved a four-pound helicopter called ...
As exciting as the entire Perseverance mission to Mars is, one of the events most looked forward to by us Earthlings must be the first flight of Ingenuity. After conducting numerous checks and ...