NASA is giving its Ingenuity helicopter a surprise second mission on Mars

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter (left) and its Perseverance rover (right).
NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA is giving its Ingenuity Mars helicopter a second mission: to scout out new terrain.
While the Perseverance rover searches for signs of alien life, Ingenuity will fly to a new airfield.
NASA will use data from this secondary mission to inform future interplanetary helicopters.
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