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NASA is investigating the Ingenuity helicopter's final flight on Mars


NASA is performing the first-ever investigation of an aircraft accident on another world, that of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter.

When the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter finally flew for the last time and went silent, many people thought that would be the last we heard about it. Ingenuity was only meant to fly five times over 30 days, but it flew for almost three years, clocking 72 total flights. The hard landing likely caused the helicopter to roll, but this tragic final flight isn’t all bad news.

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