Katrin Raynor reveals how Ingenuity’s triumph on Mars opened up a bold new era of flight on other worlds ...

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity seen flying during a fight. The Perseverance rover can be seen in the distance during the flight in an enhanced color image. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA ...

Five years ago, on April 19, 2021, a helicopter called Ingenuity took off from the surface. In case you are wondering why ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s experimental helicopter Ingenuity rose into the thin air above the dusty red surface of Mars on Monday, achieving the first powered flight by an aircraft on another ...

The descent brake mechanism on the Mars Perseverance Rover was developed in Durham by engineers with the Sierra Nevada Corporation. On board the Rover is also Ingenuity — the first helicopter to fly ...

At the beginning of February 2026, American space agency announced a major breakthrough in the way it operates its rovers on Mars: for the first time, the six-wheeled machine called Perseverance had ...

Drexel University alumna Moogega “Moo” Cooper, PhD, Planetary Protection Lead for the Mars rover Perseverance and Group ...