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Helicopter flies on Mars

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BBC News reports

 

The American space agency NASA has successfully flown a small helicopter on Mars.

The drone, called Ingenuity, was airborne for less than a minute, but Nasa is celebrating what represents the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft on another world.

Confirmation came via a satellite at Mars which relayed the chopper's data back to Earth.

The space agency is promising more adventurous flights in the days ahead.

 

source - with video of one minute flight here 

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I've watched that on TV. Marvellous achievement.

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