NASA's Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, has been on Mars for nearly two-and-a-half years and on its last trip reached a flight milestone.
During its latest airborne adventure — its 57th on the red planet since April 2021 — Ingenuity reached a total flight time of 100 minutes.
To date, the furthest Ingenuity has flown in a single flight is 2,325 feet in a mission in April last year, while the longest it’s stayed airborne is 169.5 seconds in a flight in August 2021. Its first hover nearly two-and-a-half years ago sent Ingenuity straight into the history books for becoming the first aircraft to perform powered, controlled flight on another planet.
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