"NASA Captures Rare Footage of Mars Helicopter's Flight and Landing"

NASA's Perseverance rover captured footage of its experimental Ingenuity helicopter's 54th flight on Mars. The helicopter, designed to fly in the low-density Martian atmosphere, experienced a flight anomaly but successfully landed. The footage shows Ingenuity firing up its rotors, taking off, hovering 16 feet in the air, and then touching down. The Perseverance rover, along with Ingenuity, is searching for signs of ancient microbial life on Mars as part of its astrobiology mission.