A stowaway helicopter on NASA’s Mars rover will attempt the first flight on another world

An artistic rendering of Ingenuity deployed on Mars. | Image: NASA When NASA’s latest Mars rover, Perseverance, launches this week, the robot will have a tiny stowaway on board: a small box-shaped helicopter. If the copter manages to successfully hover above the Martian terrain, it’ll be the first time that a human-made vehicle has ever flown on another world — and it could open up a whole new way of exploring the Solar System in the future.
The helicopter, named Ingenuity, is