The investigation into the Mars ... Ingenuity accident has found that the "lack of surface texture gave the navigation system too little information to work with,” likely causing the rotors ...

Ingenuity, a helicopter weighing only 1,800 grams, wrote a year ago a page in the history of space exploration when flying for the first time on another planet. His five planned flights on Mars ...

Nasa’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter transmitted its final message to Earth and will now serve as an immobile data-gathering unit on the red planet’s surface, the space agency said last month.

NASA is initiating plans for a second helicopter mission to Mars ... that feature carbon fiber blades, which are approximately four inches longer than those used in Ingenuity.