NASA's Mars Helicopter Opens the Door for Flight on Other Worlds - The Wall Street Journal

On April 19, 2021, a toaster oven-size chopper named Ingenuity spun its rotors and roseate 10 feet supra the aboveground of Mars, becoming the archetypal craft to execute a powered formation connected a satellite beyond Earth. It won’t beryllium the last.

Three much extraterrestrial fliers are already nether improvement astatine the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and different abstraction agencies, and galore much uncrewed copters, hoppers and floating machines are connected drafting boards. These aerial robots could survey the clouds of Venus, hunt for beingness connected Saturn’s satellite Titan and scout retired resources for Mars astronauts who mightiness get successful the precocious 2030s.