Name: NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter sets new distance record on the Red Planet
Uploaded: 2024-01-03T17:59:38-05:00
Duration: 5 min
Description: NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter set a new Mars record last month, by the skin of its robotic teeth. The 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) Ingenuity covered 2,315 feet (705 meters) of Red Planet ground on Dec. 20, according to the mission’s flight log. The old mark was 2,310 feet (704 m), which the little chopper set in April […]

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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter sets new distance record on the Red Planet

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter set a new Mars record last month, by the skin of its robotic teeth. The 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) Ingenuity covered 2,315 feet (705 meters) of Red Planet ground on Dec. 20, according to the mission’s flight log. The old mark was 2,310 feet (704 m), which the little chopper set in April […]

NASA donates Ingenuity Mars Helicopter prototype to Smithsonian

The Smithsonian would love to display the first vehicle to achieve powered flight on another world, but with NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter still busy setting records on Mars, the Washington, D.C. institution has accepted the next best thing. Officials from NASA and the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum marked the agency’s donation of the aerial […]