GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter on Mars far exceeded expectations. Intended to make 5 flights over 30 days, Ingenuity flew 72 missions over almost 3 years -- from its landing on ...

In a Martian valley carved by ancient rivers, a four-pound helicopter sat in silence, its blades half-buried in red dust. Nearly three years after it made history by achieving powered flight on ...

Creating an aircraft that will fly in the Martian atmosphere is an engineering tour de force. The aircraft must be able to operate in an environment that has approximately 1% of the atmospheric ...

Last week, a group of scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena made mankind's first powered flight on another planet — 183 million miles away. It involved a four-pound helicopter called ...

Helicopters on Mars may sound like something from a science fiction novel — or perhaps just a typical "Doctor Who" episode. But actually, they're not fully confined to the world of sci-fi; after all, ...

Sometimes you get a small electric shock from touching your car door handle on a dry summer's day. The source of these shocks is a spark discharge, occurring between your body and the body of the car.

A demonstrator designed to prove the feasibility of flying machines on Mars, it was only supposed to make five flights over the course of 31 (Earth) days. However, it turned out to be so ...