NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter can be seen on Mars as viewed by the Perseverance rover’s rear Hazard Camera on April 4, 2021. (Credit: NASA) As we on the North Fork and across America ponder the atrocious mess our national politicians have made of this country, there’s one thing we don’t seem to be talking about: a tiny American helicopter flew above the surface of Mars last week. Yes, that’s right. If you somehow missed it, a drone controlled by NASA scientists from 180 million miles away flew above the surface of Mars, the very first time — as far as anyone knows, anyway — anything like this has happened.