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NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity made history again Thursday with another epic Red Planet flight. This time, controllers on Earth completed a more challenging flight by climbing to 16 feet and tilting ...

Mars has so little air that flying there is closer to flying at extreme altitude on Earth than using a normal helicopter at sea level. To make it work, engineers had to build an aircraft that was ...

The flight lasted just under 40 seconds, but its significance was enormous. It proved that powered flight was possible in Mars' thin atmosphere, which is just about 1% as dense as Earth's.