After completing its one-way trip to another base on Mars, NASA's Ingenuity little helicopter was ready for its newly-appointed aerial scouting job. However, on its sixth flight, things didn't go as smoothly as they did for the rotorcraft's previous flights. Ingenuity made history on April 19th by demonstrating that controlled flight in the very thin atmosphere of the Red Planet is possible. After that, the helicopter succe...
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