"NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter: A Farewell and Final Tribute"

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter has concluded its flight missions and transitioned into a stationary testbed, with the latest software changes allowing it to function as a data collection platform. It will now wake up daily, perform self-checks, and collect sensor data and images to gather long-term performance data on its systems, with enough onboard memory to store measurements for around 20 years. Although the Perseverance rover will continue its mission without Ingenuity, the helicopter may potentially be revisited by future missions for communication or data retrieval.