Ingenuity’s Flying Days On Mars Come To An End

Irene Klotz January 26, 2024
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Ingenuity as seen by the Perseverance Mars rover in August 2023.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS
A diminutive helicopter sent to Mars to demonstrate the first powered flight beyond Earth completed an unexpectedly prolonged mission on Jan. 25, with 72 sorties over three years. Launched with NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover as a technology demonstration, the 4-lb. Ingenuity rotorcraft was designed...
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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