NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter on Mars captured by the Perseverance rover
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A small helicopter finally made it this year. NASA’s Ingenuity drone made its 72nd and final flight to Mars in January, damaging one of its rotors on landing, ending one of the most unusual space exploration experiments in decades.
to be The Perseverance rover reached the surface of Mars in 2021the drone performed the missions autonomously, as the long delay in radio transmissions between Earth and Mars made direct control impossible.
