After three years of service, NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter has flown on Mars for the last time. Earlier this month, during its 72nd flight, Ingenuity stopped communicating with the Perseverance rover.

NASA's Perseverance rover has captured an image of the Ingenuity helicopter's final resting place, after it stopped functioning late last month. Ingenuity was an impressive little robot, becoming ...

NASA's Ingenuity team has said a final goodbye to the helicopter robot, receiving a final message before the team disbands – but Ingenuity is not actually dead yet, and will continue to collect ...

Ingenuity — a roughly 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) robotic helicopter first deployed to Mars in 2021 — sustained fatal rotor damage at the end of its 72nd flight over the Red Planet, when it ...

Building on Ingenuity’s design, the new UAV will have wheels and a grappling contraption to pick up sample tubes, which could assist in the Mars sample recovery mission. Perseverance is currently ...

When there is that little atmosphere the roto system has to spin really fast," Ingenuity's project manager Mimi Aung explained in 2021. "In fact, it spins at over 2,500 revolutions per minute for ...

Almost one year ago, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter performed its final flight on Mars. The drone was designed only as a technology demonstration, but its incredible success has made aerial ...

Home / JPL completes investigation of Ingenuity’s final flight. Posted in Civil JPL completes investigation of Ingenuity’s final flight by Jeff Foust December 12, 2024 December 12, 2024.

Håvard Grip, Ingenuity's first pilot, said in an interview Wednesday that lessons learned from Ingenuity's 72nd and final flight on Jan. 18 will be fed into designs for more powerful Mars ...