Ingenuity Helicopter Travels Faster, Farther During Third Mars Flight

Irene Klotz April 25, 2021
A color image taken by NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter April 22. Tracks made by the Perseverance Mars rover are visible.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA’s Mars Ingenuity Helicopter conducted a third flight test on April 25, zipping downrange as far as 164 ft. and temporarily out of view of cameras on the Perseverance rover. “It was nothing short of amazing,” Dave Lavery, program executive for the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter project at NASA...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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