Ingenuity

Ingenuity is getting faster and farther — watch

by Robin Bea
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NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter made history when it became the first craft to complete a powered, guided flight on Mars. And that wasn’t the end of Ingenuity’s impressive feats.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

Within a week of its first flight, Ingenuity took to the sky two more times, and it’s getting better at it.

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