The Mars Helicopter, a small, autonomous rotorcraft, will travel with the agency’s Mars 2020 rover mission, currently scheduled to launch in July 2020, to demonstrate the viability and potential of ...

In 2020, NASA launched the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter as part of its Mars 2020 mission, hitching the small rotorcraft aboard the Perseverance rover. The craft touched down on Mars' Jezero Crater on 18 ...

A tiny helicopter is making huge history. NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter rose from the surface of Mars and hovered in the red planet’s thin air for a brief but extraordinary hop early Monday, marking the ...

NASA’s experimental helicopter Ingenuity rose into the thin air above the dusty red surface of Mars on Monday, achieving the first powered flight by an aircraft on another planet. The triumph was ...

The US space agency said Friday it plans to launch the first-ever helicopter to Mars in 2020, a miniature, unmanned drone-like chopper that could boost our understanding of the Red Planet. Known ...

NASA successfully landed its fifth robotic rover, Perseverance, on the surface of Mars on Thursday after its six-month voyage from Earth. "Touchdown confirmed," NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...

Creating an aircraft that will fly in the Martian atmosphere is an engineering tour de force. The aircraft must be able to operate in an environment that has approximately 1% of the atmospheric ...

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter was never supposed to survive more than 30 days on Mars. Instead, it flew for nearly three years, enduring freezing temperatures, dust storms, power failures, and hardware ...

This illustration shows the drone-like Mars-copter that will be included in the Mars 2020 mission. NASA / JPL-Caltech Time to spread those little wings and fly! NASA will send a helicopter to Mars in ...