NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has completed its 50th flight on Mars. The first aircraft on another world reached the half-century mark on April 13, travelling over 322.2 meters in 145.7 seconds. The helicopter also achieved a new altitude record of 18 meters before alighting near the 800-meter-wide “Belva Crater.”
With Flight 50 in the mission logbook, the helicopter team plans to perform another repositioning flight before exploring the “Fall River Pass” region of Jezero Crater.
“Just as the Wright brothers continued their experiments well after that momentous day at Kitty Hawk in 1903, the Ingenuity team continues to pursue and learn from the flight operations of the first aircraft on another world,” said Lori Glaze, director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
Read more about Ingenuity and watch videos of its spectacular flights at
https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/#Quick-Facts