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NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has completed its first flight on Mars, making it the first vehicle to attempt powered flight on another planet. “We’ve been talking so long about our Wright brothers moment on Mars, and here it is,” said MiMi Aung at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, speaking from mission control just after the flight. Advertisement Early images from NASA shot from the Perseverance rover show Ingenuity taking off on its short first test. The craft rose to around 3 metres, pivoted towards the rover and landed after about 30 seconds. “To se...

Editor’s note: This story will be updated periodically. A helicopter just flew on Mars. NASA’s Ingenuity hovered for about 40 seconds above the Red Planet’s surface, marking the first flight of a spacecraft on another planet. In the wee hours on April 19, the helicopter spun its carbon fiber rotor blades and lifted itself into the thin Martian air. It rose about three meters above the ground, pivoted to look at NASA’s Perseverance rover, took a picture, and settled back down to the ground. As data from the flight started coming in to Ingenuity’s mission control room at NASA’s Jet ...

After an anxious wait on Earth to see how Ingenuity fared, NASA received an image from Mars from the helicopter in flight and a video from the Perseverance Rover showing the helicopter hovering above the Martian surface. "How incredible," said Taryn Bailey, a mechanical engineer working for NASA. The anticipation before the flight at NASA was tense with Mr Bailey adding: "Everyone is really feeling it now. It's amazing, brilliant, everyone here is super excited." Ingenuity's short but successful flight is expected to herald major changes in how scientists can explore space, allowing aer...

The little helicopter flew in the early hours of Monday, and photos were beamed back to Earth hours later. It marks the first time humanity has conducted powered flight on another planet.

In an extraordinary scientific leap, the Ingenuity helicopter will try to take off and reach an altitude of 10ft