NASA’s Mars helicopter ... landing legs can be seen in on the left and right sides of the image, and a small portion of the horizon can be seen at the upper right and left corners. The Ingenuity ...

Close up of Ingenuity’s central core, including landing gear flexures, lower rotor swashplate servos, and HWEB. Click to enlarge. Source: NASA/JPL Having an autonomous helicopter at your ...

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has opened its four landing legs and is expected to be released by the Perseverance rover on the surface of Mars later this week. Perseverance, a robot lab on wheels ...

Ingenuity's mission ended after the helicopter experienced a hard landing on its last flight, significantly damaging its rotor blades. Unable to fly, the rotorcraft will remain at "Valinor Hills ...

All eyes were on Mars this past weekend when NASA had scheduled the first flight of its Ingenuity helicopter. It was supposed to be a monumental moment for NASA, the scientific community ...

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, the first aircraft to achieve powered flight on another planet, is now the first drone to fly on a parade float — in the form of a flower-covered replica.

A proposed Mars helicopter mission would search for signs of life, water and future human footholds in a vast volcanic canyon network. The little Ingenuity drone proved that helicopters can play a ...

Nasa’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter transmitted its final message to Earth and will now serve as an immobile data-gathering unit on the red planet’s surface, the space agency said last month.