EFEScience Desk NASA's Mars helicopter in first controlled flight on another planet A handout photo made available by NASA and taken from the agency's Perseverance rover on 16 April 2021 shows the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter right after it successfully completed a high-speed spin-up test (issued 19 April 2021). EFE/EPA/NASA/JPL-Caltech/HANDOUT A handout image provided by NASA shows the shadow of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter during its first test flight on Mars, 19 April 2021. EFE/EPA/NASA/JPL-Caltech/HANDOUT A handout video still taken from a livestream by NASA shows engineers celebrating after data downlinked from NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter suggested a successful first test flight on Mars, at the control room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, USA, 19 April 2021. EFE/EPA/NASA HANDOUT HANDOUT