NASA's Perseverance is gearing up to release the Ingenuity helicopter that will conduct the first controlled flights on another planet. Alibay also highlighted that a piece of fabric used by the Wright Brothers to construct the first airplane was attached to Ingenuity before launching to Mars. NASA's Ingenuity helicopter preps for its 'Wright brothers moment' NASA is set to fly where no one has flown before – Mars' atmosphere. It will first spend up to 60 days charging strapped to the Perseverance rover, before being released. MiMi Aung, project manager for Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at JPL, said:' Ingenuity is an experimental engineering flight test – we want to see if we can fly at Mars.

Source: Daily Mail March 23, 2021 19:24 UTC