News Archive / Tagged: Perseverance

• Senate puts Mars Sample Return program on notice

  Derek RichardsonJuly 17th, 2023

  The United States Senate is urging NASA to take immediate steps to rein in the budget of the Mars Sample Return mission, else the program faces cancellation.

• NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter logs 25th flight

  Cullen DesforgesApril 18th, 2022

  NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter logged its 25th flight as it works to catch up with the Perseverance rover, which is heading toward an ancient river delta.

• Ingenuity Mars Helicopter completes 15th flight

  Cullen DesforgesNovember 13th, 2021

  NASA’s Mars Helicopter known as Ingenuity has begun to traverse its way back to the famed Wright Brothers Field on the Martian surface after completing its 15th successful flight.

• Mars helicopter tests higher rotor speed on latest flight

  Cullen DesforgesNovember 1st, 2021

  NASA’s Mars Helicopter Ingenuity successfully made its 14th flight, testing a higher rotor speed in anticipation upcoming seasonal changes.

• First Perseverance rover Mars rock samples suggest Jezero Crater was once habitable

  Laurel KornfeldSeptember 23rd, 2021

  The first Martian rock samples collected by NASA's Perseverance rover for eventual return to Earth suggest landing site Jezero Crater harbored water for a long enough time to be habitable for microbial life.

• Ingenuity makes 12th flight from the Martian surface

  Matt HaskellAugust 23rd, 2021

  In yet another milestone, the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity made its 12th flight from the Red Planet’s surface on Aug. 16.

• Ingenuity Mars Helicopter breaks records with 9th flight

  Cullen DesforgesJuly 8th, 2021

  The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter that has proven itself to be the star of the Perseverance mission recently made its ninth and most daring flight to date.

• NASA releases 3D video of Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s 3rd flight

  Michael McCabeMay 31st, 2021

  On April 25, 2021, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter performed its third test flight. Recently, NASA engineers converted a video of the flight into anaglyph 3D.

• Ingenuity helicopter flies ‘half the length of a football field’

  Cullen DesforgesApril 26th, 2021

  Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California have received data confirming a successful third flight of Ingenuity, its most ambitious yet.

• Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flies for a second time

  Cullen DesforgesApril 22nd, 2021

  After making history as the first powered aircraft on another planet, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flew for a second time, this time even farther and longer.

• ‘Wright brothers moment’: Ingenuity takes flight on Mars

  Cullen DesforgesApril 19th, 2021

  With NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, history has been made as humankind made the next great stride in powered flight; the first flight on another planet.

• Software issue delays Ingenuity Mars helicopter’s first flight

  Cullen DesforgesApril 14th, 2021

  History will have to wait a little longer as the first flight of the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars has been delayed by at least a week.

• Ingenuity helicopter deployed onto the Martian surface

  Cullen DesforgesApril 5th, 2021

  NASA’s first interplanetary helicopter has touched the surface of Mars for the first time after being deployed from underneath the Perseverance rover.

• Engineers detail plans for Ingenuity Mars helicopter’s first flight

  Michael McCabeMarch 24th, 2021

  Now that NASA’s Perseverance rover is safely on Mars, all eyes are shifting toward the deployment of a small technology demonstration, a drone-like helicopter called Ingenuity.

• Perseverance rover begins driving across the surface of Mars

  Cullen DesforgesMarch 13th, 2021

  In the weeks since Perseverance landed on Mars, the images, science and sounds that have come from the mission have proven to be groundbreaking.