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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Has Taken Its Final Flight. Originally designed for up to five flights on Mars, Ingenuity performed 72 over three years, until one of its rotor blades was damaged during landing on January 18
Originally designed for up to five flights on Mars, Ingenuity performed 72 over three years, until one of its rotor blades was damaged during landing on January 18
“History’s first Mars helicopter will leave behind an indelible mark on the future of space exploration and will inspire fleets of aircraft on Mars—and other worlds—for decades to come,” Teddy Tzanetos, Ingenuity’s project manager, says in NASA’s statement. After completing four more flights, it started helping out Perseverance, aerially scouting possible places for the rover to explore and photographing regions that would have been tough to access from the ground. “I am really thrilled to say Ingenuity absolutely shattered our paradigm of exploration, introducing this new dimension of aerial mobility,” Glaze said during a Thursday press briefing, per the Washington Post ’s Christian Davenport.
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