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Flying on Another World Mars Helicopter on the Red Planet This is the Ingenuity helicopter, captured on the surface of Mars. It became the first aircraft in history to perform a powered flight on another planet.Designed to test flying in Mars’ thin atmosphere, Ingenuity has successfully completed several missions alongside the Perseverance rover. It stands as a symbol of human innovation proving that even on a planet 225 million kilometres away, we can make flight possible. #space #SpaceX #NASA

First Video of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter in Flight In this video captured by NASA’s Perseverance rover, the agency's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took the first powered, controlled flight on another planet on April 19, 2021. The rover was parked at “Van Zyl Overlook,” about 211 feet (64.3 meters) away in Mars' Jezero Crater and chronicled the flight operations with its cameras. These images from the rover’s Mastcam-Z cameras show the helicopter hovering above the Red Planet's surface. During