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We study the red planet. heres michael holmes with the story. >> its the little helicopter with a very big mission. nasa hopes its mini chopper named "ingenuity" will be the first aircraft to achieve powered controlled flight on another planet. ingenuitys first flight is intentionally brief. >> it will contisist of a take and then it will hover and make a turn and then come back and land again. >> a short hop, thats the culmination of many hits and misses. ingenuity so far has survived the frigi...

I its incredible they were able to get the students out safely, and thats what should be the focus, but at the same time there are potentially some very important works of history and literature that have been burned in that library, though the good news coming out late last night is that a fire system put down shutters to protect part of the library. this is still an active situation and there are very frightened people in cape town this morning that had to flee from their homes and apartments ...

>> strange. out! out! >> reporter: students evacuated. you see nearby restaurants and historical structures damaged. including mustards mill which was built in 1796, the only working windmill in africa south of the sahara. >> its horrible. its bad. its worse than i expected. >> reporter: residents watched as the fire spread from the mountain to other parts of capetown. >> helicopters were bringing water to kwechblg the fire. >> reporter: a statement from table mountain national park said an earl...

Helicopter is expected to kick off only a few feet from the ground, hover in the air for 20 to 30 seconds, then land. >> its actually really hard to fly on mars.y much atmospherelybout 1% of the atmosphere we have on earth. it has to listen to commands and do everything all on its own. >> reporter: ingenuity arrived on mars, attached to the belly of nasas perseverance the $80 million project operates independently. >> if we can prove we can do it, it opens the landscape for all kinds of new ways...

Zishilo and zanele say they still suffer from the trauma years after their alleged sterilisations.

Powered flight on another planet, this animation reveals how it might look with the extreme conditions on mars and the fact that theres barely any atmosphere, it wont be easy. of course, weve been flying on earth forjust over a hundred years and now were going to go to another planet, fine. its crazy, thats the beauty of engineering. nasas helicopter is a feat of engineering. it weighsjust 1.8 kilograms — thats four lbs — and it its first flight takes it three metres above the ground before ...

The hospital where zishilo gave birth says that before going into labour, or medical records document that she consented to being sterilised during her caesarean section.

Victoria gill, bbc news. nasa is attempting to make history with the first powered flight on another planet. it will launch a small helicopter, called ingenuity, from the surface of mars. on board is a small piece of history from earth, a tiny square of material from the wright brothers plane that first flew over a century ago. as our science correspondent rebecca morelle reports, it�*s a trial of technology that could transform how we explore distant worlds. the parachute has deployed... this...

To the martian surface. touchdown confirmed. now nasa is ready to make history again. this time, it will try to launch a helicopter. the first attempt at powered flight on another planet, this animation reveals how it might look. but with the extreme conditions on mars and the fact that theres barely any atmosphere, it wont be easy. it feels absolutely nuts, of course. i mean, weve been flying on earth forjust over a hundred years and now, yeah, were going to go to another planet and fly. its cr...

To the martian surface. touchdown confirmed. now nasa is ready to make history again. this time, it will try to launch a helicopter. the first attempt at powered flight on another planet, this animation reveals how it might look. but with the extreme conditions on mars and the fact that theres barely any atmosphere, it wont be easy. it feels absolutely nuts, of course. i mean, weve been flying on earth forjust over a hundred years and now, yeah, were going to go to another planet and fly. its cr...