The investigation into the Mars helicopter Ingenuity accident has found that the "lack of surface texture gave the navigation ...

During its three-year tenure, the Ingenuity helicopter accomplished far more than scientists ever expected. It flew higher, faster, and further than NASA ever planned it to.

Ingenuity’s first flight, on April 19, 2021. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS. The extra month of experimentation is good news for the helicopter’s team, which had a 30-day window to complete ...

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter made spaceflight history on Monday when it lifted off Mars and rose 10 feet above the planet's surface. Never before had a spacecraft conducted a controlled, powered ...

Future space helicopters may benefit as NASA completes history's first interplanetary aircraft crash inquiry. The yet-to-be-released technical report explains why the space agency's Ingenuity Mars ...

NASA Ingenuity Space Helicopter's Crash on Mars Now Unveiled. According to a new press release by NASA, engineers from its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), with help from AeroVironment, ...

NASA built the Ingenuity helicopter for a quick jaunt around Mars. However, the aircraft was unexpectedly sturdy, completing an incredible 72 flights before its mission came to an end following a ...

NASA ends Mars ‘Ingenuity' after little helicopter probe crashes on red planet Originally intended as a short-term tech demo, Ingenuity logged 72 flights over three years at Mars.

This image of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument of the Perseverance rover on June 15, 2021, the 114th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter on Mars, a tissue-box-sized rotorcraft that landed with the Perseverance rover in February, completed its 10th flight over the red planet on Saturday.

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter made spaceflight history on Monday when it lifted off Mars and rose 10 feet above the planet's surface. Never before had a spacecraft conducted a controlled, powered ...