Ingenuity made a 328-foot round-trip journey, helping to demonstrate the capability of the vehicle’s navigation system. NASA’s Perseverance rover photographed the experimental helicopter known as Ingenuity during the vehicle’s third flight on Mars on Sunday. It is the small black dot near the center of the lower hill.Credit...Nasa/JPL-Caltech April 25, 2021, 2:34 p.m. ET NASA’s Mars helicopter went up again, going faster and traveling a total distance that was about the length of an American football field on its third trip through the wispy air of Mars. Like the first two flights, the small experimental flying robot, named Ingenuity, perfectly executed its instructions from Earth. At 1:31 a.m. Eastern time — 12:33 p.m. local Mars time — it lifted 16 feet off the ground, then flew a round-trip distance of 328 feet before landing back where it started.