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    Success! NASA's Ingenuity Makes First Powered Flight On Mars

    The tiny helicopter took off and hovered briefly — the first such flight on another planet. The Perseverance rover kept tabs on the mission from a viewing point about 60 yards away.
    by Joe Palca Apr 19, 2021 2 minutes
    An illustration of how NASA had planned the Ingenuity helicopter to fly over Mars.
    Updated April 19, 2021 at 7:29 AM ET

    Orville and Wilbur would be proud.

    NASA's Ingenuity helicopter has made the first-ever powered flight on another planet, 117 years after the Wright Brothers' historic flight on this planet.

    The flight itself was modest. The 4-pound helicopter rose 10 feet in the and returned to the Martian surface. An images taken from the craft showed Ingenuity's shadow on the surface and another taken from the Perseverance rover showed an airborne Ingenuity.

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