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NASA has given a mission extension to the Mars helicopter Ingenuity and is now testing to to see how it can aid in actual exploration fo the Red Planet.

Video of Ingenuity's shadow taken on its third flight on April 25, 2021. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The blades don't seem to move due to the way the images were taken; the shutter is synched to the blade movement. The bright spot around the shadow is due to the opposition effect: The lack of shadows from rocks and other irregularities on the surface makes it look brighter, plus some dusty surfaces tend to reflect more light straight back in the direction the light came from, making it look brighter around the shadow. A fifth flight is planned in the next few days, where Ingenuity will take a on...

NASA has shared a 'bird's eye view' image of the Perseverance rover, taken by the Ingenuity helicopter as it soared above the Martian surface. In a tweet, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) team said: 'I spy with my little eye…a rover,' sharing the image with Perseverance visible in the top left corner. It was taken during the third flight of the autonomous copter that happened on April 25 and saw it fly to an altitude of 16ft and travel for 64ft before landing again.  At the peak it was moving at 6.6ft per second, or 4.5 miles per hour. In contrast, the Perseverance rover, captured...

Ingenuity has captured the first color aerial photographs of the surface of Mars during its second flight The copter snapped three images while soaring 17 feet above the Martian landscape April 22 The photographs were captured using Ingenuity's high resolution camera that has a 4208 x 3120-pixel sensor The images also captured tire marks on the ground that were left by the six-wheeled Perseverance rover