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NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter is getting ready to fly on Mars. This is what happens next – ABC News

The Ingenuity helicopter has been unfurling from its hiding spot under Perseverance, but that’s just the start of its nail-biting quest to become the first aircraft…

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A little less than 120 years after the first aircraft took to the sky above windswept fields near Kitty Hawk, a small helicopter is preparing to buzz around the surface of Mars.
In what’s being billed as a Wright Brothers moment, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter will go down in history if it succeeds.
“We’ve never had an aircraft that can power itself off another planet,” said Tim Canham, who leads NASA’s helicopter operations team.
The small table-sized helicopter arrived on Mars in February tucked…

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