NASA’s Mars Helicopter Flies an Even More Daring Mission

NASA reports that Ingenuity successfully completed its ninth and most challenging mission so far on July 5. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Ingenuity’s “mother") tweeted: “#MarsHelicopter pushes its Red Planet limits. The rotorcraft completed its 9th and most challenging flight yet, flying for 166.4 seconds at a speed of 5 m/s.” That’s 16 feet a second, the fastest speed since the beginning of the experiments in April. The little heli flew about 625 meters (0.4 miles).