Animation illustrating NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter flying on Mars. Credit: NASA With Flight 15, Ingenuity began the journey back towards “Wright Brothers Field” at “Octavia E.…
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Using its WATSON camera, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie over a rock nicknamed “Rochette,” on Sept.10, 2021, the 198th Martian day, or sol,…
The Ingenuity helicopter made history on April 19, 2021, with the first powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet. How do engineers talk…
2,800 RPM Spin a Success, but Flight 14 Delayed to Post Conjunction It’s been an eventful several Martian days, or sols, since our last blog…
NASA’s Mars missions, clockwise from top left: Perseverance rover and Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, InSight lander, Odyssey orbiter, MAVEN orbiter, Curiosity rover, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.…
This illustration depicts Mars Helicopter Ingenuity during a test flight on Mars. Ingenuity was taken to the Red Planet strapped to the belly of the…
This 3D view of a rock mound called “Faillefeu” was created from data collected by NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter during its 13th flight at Mars…
Animation of NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter from above. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech “The longer you look back, the farther you can look forward.” –Winston Churchill Following Flight…
This image of the South Séítah region of Jezero Crater was captured by NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter during its 12th flight at Mars, on August…
This 3D view of geologic feature the Mars Perseverance rover team calls “Raised Ridges” was generated from data collected by Ingenuity during its 10th flight…
This annotated image of Mars’ Jezero Crater depicts the ground track and waypoints for Ingenuity’s planned tenth flight – scheduled to take place no earlier…
Created at NASA’s JPL, the open-source flight software called F Prime isn’t just powering humanity’s first interplanetary helicopter; it’s also powering inspiration at multiple universities.…
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured this image of tracks made by the Perseverance rover during its ninth flight, on July 5. A portion of the…
Animation illustrating NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter flying on Mars. Credit: NASA It has been a week of heightened apprehension on the Mars Helicopter team as we…
A new video of the helicopter’s third flight gives viewers the sensation of standing on the Red Planet and seeing the action firsthand. When NASA’s…
Sounds of the Mars Helicopter’s whirring rotors add another new dimension to the historic project. For the first time, a spacecraft on another planet has…
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Completes First Trip to New Airfield – “Another Great Achievement!”
The Red Planet rotorcraft headed south in support of furthering research into the potential use of aerial scouts on Mars in the future. NASA’s Ingenuity…
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took a selfie with the Ingenuity helicopter, seen here about 13 feet (3.9 meters) from the rover. This image was taken…
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter (above center to the right) is viewed by one of the hazard cameras aboard the Perseverance rover during the helicopter’s fourth…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Right Mastcam-Z camera. Mastcam-Z is a pair of cameras located high on the rover’s mast. This…