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Did you know? Ingenuity — a 1.8-kg NASA helicopter — was the first machine to make powered flight off Earth. It flew on 19 April 2021 in the thin Martian atmosphere (1% of Earth's) — comparable in difficulty to flying at 30 km altitude on Earth. It made 72 flights in total before crashing in 2024.

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Ingenuity — a 1.8-kg NASA helicopter — was the first machine to make powered flight off Earth. It flew on 19 April 2021 in the thin Martian atmosphere (1% of Earth's) — comparable in difficulty to flying at 30 km altitude on Earth. It made 72 flights in total before crashing in 2024.

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