NASA's Mars helicopter makes history with successful flight on Red Planet
The Hindu
During NASA's own coverage of the event livestreamed from JPL headquarters, NASA also displayed the first images from the flight.
(Subscribe to Science For All, our weekly newsletter, where we aim to take the jargon out of science and put the fun in. .) NASA's miniature robot helicopter Ingenuity performed a successful takeoff and landing on Mars early on Monday, achieving the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft over the surface of another planet, the U.S. space agency said. The solar-powered whirligig's debut on the Red Planet marked a 21st-century Wright Brothers moment for NASA, which said success could pave the way for new modes of exploration on Marsand other destinations in the solar system, such as Venus and Saturn's moon Titan.
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