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

A NASA helicopter ... crash site on Mars, raising intrigue about what—or who—might have left it behind. As the first powered, controlled flight on another planet, Ingenuity’s mission was ...

The Ingenuity helicopter, the small Nasa chopper on Mars, has had a software upgrade to arm it for future work, in particular to climb over hills. The drone has now flown 36 times on the Red ...

Nighthawk would fly to altitudes of up to 4,920 feet (1,500 meters) above the Martian average, covering distances of up to 1.86 miles per flight.

Although the helicopter, aptly named Ingenuity, is only a technology demonstrator, and flight operations will occupy but a small fraction of the time Mars 2020 is devoting to its science missions ...

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 ...

In a new rover selfie published by NASA, we get to see the Mars helicopter Ingenuity in the background ... try to use Perseverance as a cameraman to capture the flight(s) and landings while ...

A proposed Mars helicopter mission would search for signs of life, water and future human footholds in a vast volcanic canyon network. The little Ingenuity drone proved that helicopters can play a ...

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’s Mars Ingenuity helicopter made history early Monday when the drone became the first powered craft to fly on another world. In this video, WSJ visits the company NASA contracted to build ...