For around a week in April, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory searched anxiously for signs of life on Mars. Lost somewhere in the undulating terrain of a Martian riverbed was Ingenuity, ...

After more than two years on the red planet, the Mars helicopter Ingenuity has broken two new records, NASA said. The helicopter on Sunday flew 14.5 miles per hour, beating its previous record of 13.4 ...

The Ingenuity Mars helicopter was never supposed to last this long. NASA engineers built and tested the first self-powered aircraft to fly on another planet to answer a simple question: Could the ...

Mars just got a bit quieter now that the whirring blades of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter have fallen silent. The tiny craft was about the size of a tissue box, with four spindly legs and a set of ...

Designed to fly just five times over 30 days, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter lasted nearly three years, soaring across the surface of Mars and logging 72 flights before a hard or tilted landing that ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Aug. 30 (UPI) --Ingenuity, the tiny $80 million helicopter that has hovered over Mars 55 times since April 2021, will continue mapping the planet's surface as long as it can ...

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