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Ingenuity's 69th Flight is its Farthest So Far


When NASA decided to send the little Ingenuity rotorcraft to Mars on the belly of the Perseverance rover, they weren't certain of success. Nothing like it had ever been attempted in Mars' extremely thin atmosphere.

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