NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Succeeds in Historic First Flight!!!

 

                              Ingenuity's shadow on the Martian surface during its first flight.

 This morning, NASA flew a small drone helicopter, marking humankind’s first controlled and powered flight of a small drone helicopter on another planet. Ingenuity rose to about 3m, hover and then land. It took almost 40 seconds of flight, from take-off to landing. Amazing...