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Perseverance Rover Spots NASA’s Busted Helicopter at Its Final Resting Place
NASA’s iconic Martian duo have officially parted ways, with the Perseverance rover capturing a lonely view of its helicopter friend, which recently suffered a fatal blow that left it unable to fly. A recent image beamed down from Mars shows the Ingenuity helicopter parked atop the sand dunes of Mars’ Neretva Vallis, as Perseverance rolls…
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NASA’s Mars Helicopter Breaks a Blade and Will Never Fly Again
RIP, Ingenuity, the first craft to fly on another planet.
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover: Its Path to Finding Organics on Mars
Earlier this week, scientists announced that Perseverance found organic molecules on Mars. Not life itself—hardly—but another endorsement of the ancient habitat on Mars as having been suitable for life. Perseverance has been searching for biosignatures—that is, signs of ancient life on Mars—since it landed on the Red Planet in February 2021. But the search for…
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This Albatross-Like Plane Could One Day Fly Over Mars
An early prototype of the motorless sailplane took flight while tethered to a balloon.