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Posted: January 25, 2024 8:03 pm ET | Last Updated: January 25, 2024 8:09 pm ET | NASAs Ingenuity helicopter has made its last flight on Mars. A damaged rotor blade means it cannot fly again, but at 72 flights it far exceeded what engineers hoped could happen.

American space agency NASA officially called the end of the Ingenuity Mars helicopter mission after the aircraft damaged one of its rotors

The Ingenuity helicopter has captured a unique bird's-eye perspective of the gear that helped land the Perseverance rover on Mars.

NASA’s enterprising Mars helicopter and its remarkable 72 flights offered a new vision of planetary exploration

Its a sad time on both Mars and Earth as NASAs charismatic Ingenuity helicopter has reached the end of its mission of exploration across the red planets sky.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) says it reestablished contact by having the Perseverance rover “perform long-duration listening sessions for Ingenuity’s signal.” The agency had lost contact with Ingenuity on Thursday, just as it was ending its 72nd Mars flight. It’s good news for the bots, which are part of the Mars Sample Return mission that’s been beset by budget cuts and layoffs at JPL.

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 18, 2024 - In January 2004, twin NASA rovers named Spirit and Opportunity touched down on opposite sides of Mars, kicking off a new era of interplanetary robotic exploration. They arrived in dramatic fashion t

This month marks the 20th anniversary of Spirit and Opportunity’s landing on Mars, part of a mission whose legacy will extend far into the future.

Sedimentary and planetary geologist Michael Thorpe finds the stories rocks have to tell, those on Earth and those from Mars.