NASA succeeds in first helicopter flight on Mars

NASA said Monday its small helicopter was confirmed to have flown in the thin atmosphere of Mars, becoming the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet.The experimental flight, which the U.S. space agency likened to the historic moment the Wright brothers flew the world's first powered airplane over a century ago, took place as part of NASA's current Mars exploration mission.The 1.8-kilogram rotorcraft named Ingenuity was ferried to Mars on a rover that landed there in February, with the intention of testing whether future exploration of the red plane…READ FULL ARTICLE