Ingenious

Look: Mars helicopter 10th flight sets a new "aerial record"

by Robin Bea
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NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter started to zip around Mars in early April 2021.

It was originally only expected to spend about a month conducting a series of test flights.

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Nearly four months later, the tiny robot is still regularly taking to the Martian skies — with increasingly impressive results.

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