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Helicopter flies on Mars

Recorded year2021

NASA's Ingenuity, carried by the Perseverance rover, makes the first powered flight on another planet and goes on to fly 72 times.

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.