This week on Mars NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter can be seen hovering during its third flight on April 25, 2021, as seen by the left Navigation Camera aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech. This week on Mars, Ingenuity took its third ever flight. It is already tricky to fly a helicopter on Mars, because it has a different atmosphere and gravity than Earth. Ingenuity rose to a height of 5 metres and then zoomed horizontally another 50 metres. It zipped along at 2m/s, the fastest it has flown so far. A view of Ingenuity’s third flight from Perseverance’s ‘eyes’. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS.