Ingenuity (helicopter)

Ingenuity on Martian Surface

Ingenuity was a small robotic solar helicopter on Mars as part of NASA's Mars 2020 mission. On 19 April 2021, it successfully completed the first powered controlled flight by an aircraft on a planet besides Earth, taking off vertically, hovering and landing.[1][2]

In January 2024, Ingenuity had retired after it got damaged. It made 72 flights.

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