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NASA is celebrating one year since its plucky Ingenuity helicopter became the first aircraft to achieve controlled, powered flight on another planet.

NASA’s team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California is celebrating one year since its plucky Ingenuity helicopter became the first aircraft to achieve controlled, powered flight on another planet.

After reaching Mars in February 2021, Ingenuity performed its first flight a couple of months later, taking to the martian skies in a low-altitude hover lasting 39 seconds. One of Perseverance’s cameras captured the historic moment:Credit: NASA​/​JPL-Caltech​/​ASU​/​MSSS pic.twitter.com/FCwhNPX8AS The flight was significant as it proved that Ingenuity could handle Mars’ super-thin atmosphere, which is 100 times thinner than Earth’s.

Its longest time in the air during a single flight is 169.5 seconds, recorded on a mission last summer.

 

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