Ingenuity: NASA’s outstanding Martian helicopter

When NASA added a drone known as Ingenuity to its Mars 2020 rover Perseverance, it hoped to fly a complete of 5 very transient missions into the skinny Martian environment from a tiny four-pound helicopter. However Chaturai exceeded all expectations, flying dozens of flights earlier than struggling harm to its rotors in January. Journalist David Pogue studies on how the tiny drone, constructed from off-the-shelf elements, continued to supply priceless information and pictures from the Pink Planet over the three years of its mission.