NASA's 2024 started with a crash that brought an abrupt end to one of its most remarkable missions of recent years.

The "Mars Chopper" as NASA is calling it, appears bulkier compared to its predecessor and has a greater payload capacity.

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, which flew on Mars in April 2021, became the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on a planet other than Earth.

The helicopter served as an aerial scout for the Perseverance ... take flight on Mars, NASA must address the challenges faced by Ingenuity. The smaller helicopter's crash landing in early 2024 ...

engineers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and AeroVironment have revealed what’s believed to be the cause of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s crash on January 18th, 2024. The craft’s ...

In other words, a crash landing ... from the helicopter. Ingenuity can no longer fly, but it still delivers weather and avionics data to Perseverance on a weekly basis. NASA engineers are using ...

Months after NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter crash-landed into the dusty surface of Mars, scientists have finally figured out what went wrong. Ingenuity was the first aircraft to ever fly on ...

NASA 's Ingenuity helicopter, which had successfully completed 72 flights on Mars, crashed due to a software glitch. The incident took place during its final flight on January 18, 2024, when the ...

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, deployed alongside the Perseverance rover in 2021 ... a malfunction during one of its operations caused it to crash. According to NASA engineers, a software glitch ...

NASA built the Ingenuity helicopter for a quick jaunt around ... Ingenuity rode to Mars attached to the Perseverance rover's belly. Unlike the rover, which was built from expensive custom hardware ...