The Ingenuity helicopter breaks down and will no longer fly on Mars

2024-01-26 09:29:02

NASA has ended the historic mission, which was to last a month and was extended three years, after the device suffered damage to the blades during its last landing

The drone was sent as a technological test, but it came to support the Perseverance rover in its search for traces of life on the red planet

The Ingenuity helicopter, during one of its flights on Mars NASA/JPL-Caltech

26/01/2024

Updated at 10:54 a.m.

On April 19, 2021, a small flying device that weighed less than 2 kilos took off from the surface of Mars. Called Ingenuity, it was the first to fly under power and in a controlled manner on another world, so…

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