Wonders of Perseverance Rover and Ingenuity Helicopter
Ingenuity Helicopter | Credit: NASA Can you guess the name of the first drone that flew to the other planet? If you are thinking of the Perseverance Mission, you are going in the right direction. It is an Ingenuity helicopter developed by NASA. Let’s explore how this helicopter and its partner explorer, the Perseverance Rover, achieved something that was almost impossible. Making the impossible happen Ingenuity is nestled up sideways under the belly of Perseverance rover | Credit: NASA Ingenuity, the Martian Helicopter, is a technological demonstration that aims to test powered, controlled flight on an alien planet for the first time. On the Perseverance rover, it was transported to Mars. The Ingenuity was deployed to the surface once the rover had found a suitable "airfield" location so it could conduct several test flights over a 30-day testing period on Mars. Rovers have been sent to another planet earlier as well, but the ingenuity helicopter is the first of it