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NASA Makes New Plans For Ingenuity Helicopter On Mars

NASA announced Friday that it would be increasing operational testing on its Ingenuity helicopter following four successful test flights off the surface of Mars.

NASA is allotting additional time to test the operational capabilities of its groundbreaking Ingenuity helicopter, which completed its on Mars less than two weeks ago. Since then, the device has completed a total of . If all goes well it plans to jump start the "next phase" of tests.

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