Ingenuity Mars

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  "A Long Goodbye": NASA's Ingenuity Mars Chopper Sends Final Message To Earth

  NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter has 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 on Tuesday.

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  NASA's Historic Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Ends Its Mission After 72 Flights

  NASA said on Thursday its Mars robot helicopter Ingenuity, the first vehicle to achieve powered, controlled flight on another world, has been grounded for good after flying dozens of times over three years, ending a landmark mission that far exceeded

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  NASA Re-Establishes Contact With Ingenuity Helicopter On Mars After Outage

  NASA has re-established contact with its tiny helicopter on Mars, the US space agency said Saturday, after an unexpected outage prompted fears that the hard-working craft had finally met its end.

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  NASA Loses Contact With Its Mini-Helicopter On Mars During 72nd flight

  NASA has lost contact with its tiny helicopter Ingenuity during the hard-working craft's 72nd flight, the space agency said.

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  Designed For Only 5 Flights, NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter Completes 70th Trip On Mars

  Ingenuity was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida on July 30, 2020, and landed onMars'Jezero Crater onFebruary 18, 2021.

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  Long Time, No Speak: NASA's Mars Helicopter Restores Contact After 63 Days

  Long time, no speak: NASA has re-established contact with the intrepid Ingenuity Mars Helicopter after more than two months of radio silence, the space agency said Friday.

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  NASA Video Shows Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flying Over An Alien Desert

  The video was captured by the Mastcam-Z imager aboard NASA's Perseverance rover on March 9, 2023

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  NASA Shares Video as Ingenuity Helicopter Completes Record-Breaking 25 Flights on Mars

  NASA's Ingenuity helicopter has completed record-breaking 25 flights in the tenuous atmosphere. When the tiny helicopter was sent to the one-way trip, engineers had only planned for five flights. However, Ingenuity has surpassed expectations and has taken over 25 flights.

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  NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter Gives Aerial Perspective on the Perseverance Landing Gear on Mars Surface

  NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, the first probe to ever fly on another planet, has captured images of the landing gear that helped it and its companion, the Perseverance rover, land on Mars in February 2021.

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  NASA Marks One Year Since Mars Helicopter Made History By Completing First Flight

  NASA team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California recently celebrated one year since its Ingenuity helicopter became the first aircraft to achieve controlled, powered flight on another planet.

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  NASA Says Sound Waves Travel Slower on Mars Than on Earth, Perseverance Data Shows

  A study of different sounds captured by NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has revealed that sound waves behave differently on the Red Planet. The study found that sound travels much more slowly on Mars than it travels on Earth.

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  NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover Spots Something 'No One's Ever Seen', Shares Images

  NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover said it has seen something “no one has ever seen.” In an update via Twitter, Perseverance said it scratched the Martian surface with a tool attached to its robotic arm while wandering around the Jezero Crater in search of evidence of interest to scientists. When it looked underneath the rock it found something tha...

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  NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter Successfully Completes 15th Flight on Mars

  NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter has soared through the Red Planet's skies for the 15th time. The chopper, which arrived on Mars attached to the belly of the Perseverance rover, landed within the targeted zone on the Martian surface, said NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which manages the Ingenuity mission.

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  Did Perseverance Mars Rover Pick Its Landing Spot on Its Own? NASA Engineer Explains

  More than a year after NASA launched the Perseverance rover for Mars, the space agency is bringing the focus back on how its precise landing spot was decided or who chose where it should land. In an Instagram post, NASA said that the rover made the decision moments before it touched down on the surface on February 18 this year.

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  NASA's Tiny Mars Copter Ingenuity Is Still Flying High After 12 Successful Flights

  NASA’s Ingenuity was only supposed to fly five times as per plans. But the tiny copter, which has been on Mars for six months, has successfully completed 12 flights with retirement nowhere in sight.