Success! NASA's Ingenuity Makes First Powered Flight On Mars

An illustration of how NASA has planned the Ingenuity Helicopter to fly over Mars.

The tiny helicopter took off and hovered briefly — the first such flight on another planet. The Perseverance rover kept tabs on the mission from a viewing point about 60 yards away.

(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)




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Source: NPR Space News