The pioneering little chopper has 19 Red Planet flights under its belt, and it's not done yet.
on the floor of Jezero Crater one year ago today , tasked with showing that aerial exploration is possible on Mars despite the planet's thin atmosphere.
"We're still going very strong," Jaakko Karras, Ingenuity deputy operations lead at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, told Space.com. Ingenuity aced that technology-demonstrating mission, etching its name in the aviation history books alongside legends like Wilbur and Orville Wright. And that performance isn't the only link between Ingenuity and the Wright brothers; the helicopter toted to Mars a tiny, the plane that made the first powered flights on Earth in December 1903.
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