NASA's Perseverance rover spots Mars helicopter Ingenuity that flew for the 72nd and final flight

The NASA Perseverance rover's left Mastcam-Z camera captured an image of Mars helicopter Ingenuity. The little Red Planet chopper flew for the 72nd and final time after sustaining damage to its rotor ...

Mars Rover Finally Gets Martian GPS (Sort Of), One Step Closer To Autonomous Planetary Exploration

NASA has mapped every inch of Mars, so positioning consists of the rover looking for geologic features and then comparing ...

Time-lapse of Mars helicopter Ingenuity's 32nd and 33rd flight

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity recently completed a pair of flights. See the first imagery from flight 33 and a time-lapse ...
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NASA successfully completes second, more challenging Mars helicopter flight

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity made history again Thursday with another epic Red Planet flight. This time, controllers on Earth completed a more challenging flight by climbing to 16 feet and tilting ...
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NASA Uses Mars Global Localization As GNSS Replacement For The Perseverance Rover

Unlike on Earth there aren’t dozens of satellites whizzing around Mars to provide satellite navigation functionality. Recently NASA’s JPL engineers tried something with the ...

NASA repurposes Mars Helicopter’s ancient Snapdragon SoC to help Perseverance rover navigate

Upgrade allows robot to travel ‘potentially unlimited distances’ without phoning home for help NASA has revealed it repurposed the processor the Perseverance rover used to communicate with the ...
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NASA heads to Death Valley to test new Mars drone tech

After reaching Mars with the Perseverance rover in early 2021, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter proved a huge success as it exceeded expectations with an astonishing 72 flights across the Martian surface.