Ingenuity, NASA's "little 'copter that could" (and did!)
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In 2020, NASA's Perseverance rover launched for Mars with a stowaway: a tiny drone, created by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
The drone, named Ingenuity, was likened to a Wright Brothers' plane on Mars, making the first flight on another planet. The entire drone had to be very light, because Mars has only 1% of the atmosphere of Earth; that's hard for a flying machine. So, Ingenuity weighs only four pounds.
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