Perseverance and Ingenuity
Perseverance and Ingenuity
On 18 February 2021, NASA's Mars 2020 rover Perseverance and its accompanying Mars helicopter Ingenuity landed in Jezero crater. Perseverance is the most complex rover NASA has ever sent to Mars. Ingenuity, a technology experiment, is the first aerial vehicle to attempt a controlled flight on another planet. The 50-centimetre-tall helicopter drone was attached to the underside of Perseverance and lowered from there to the ground before Perseverance rolled away to a distance of a few metres and followed the flight demonstration with the rover cameras.
