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Mars helicopter Ingenuity takes off and spins as Perseverance watches

NASA Perseverance rover's Mastcam-Z captured the Ingenuity helicopter's 54th flight on Mars last month. A camera onboard ...
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JPL Offers Sneak Peek at Ingenuity Helicopter's Possible Successor

JPL believes the Chopper could be the ideal way to get powerful scientific instruments into areas rovers would be unable to ...
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AeroVironment’s Skyfall Could Enable Future Mars Helicopter Flights

AeroVironment and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) unveiled "Skyfall," a concept for potential future Mars helicopter missions targeting a 2028 deployment. Building on the success of the ...
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What Happened To NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter From The Mars 2020 Mission?

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 ...
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NASA Wants To Drop Helicopter Drones On Mars To Scout For Manned Landing Sites

In 2021, NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab successfully launched the first powered flight on another planet with the Ingenuity drone helicopter, co-developed with AeroVironment, Inc. Now, the two are ...
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Would Helicopters Work On Mars? This Study Has A Theory For Making One

Helicopters on Mars may sound like something from a science fiction novel — or perhaps just a typical "Doctor Who" episode. But actually, they're not fully confined to the world of sci-fi; after all, ...