With Successful 10th Flight, Ingenuity Has Now Flown More Than a Mile on Mars
With Successful 10th Flight, Ingenuity Has Now Flown More Than a Mile on Mars Share NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter successfully completed its 10th flight on Mars on Saturday, bringing its total distance flown on the Red Planet to more than one mile (roughly 1.60 kilometers) and capturing important images to help out its friend, the Perseverance rover. In a Twitter post early Sunday, NASA confirmed that its helicopter had flown over an area called “Raised Ridges,” which is part of a fracture system that the Perseverance team finds intriguing and is considering visiting sometime in the futu...