Ingenuity will be the first helicopter to attempt flight on another planet. Ingenuity is an incredibly lightweight design, weighing only 4 pounds and featuring four carbon-fiber blades, solar cells and batteries. Ingenuity's rotors will spin much faster than the helicopters we have on Earth. Mars has an incredibly thin atmosphere, so the design for Ingenuity had to be lightweight while including larger and faster rotors to get it up in the air. "With Ingenuity, we're trying to do the same for Mars."

Source: CNN July 17, 2020 11:12 UTC