On Monday morning a little helicopter called Ingenuity rose just three metres above the Martian surface, hovered for half a minute, swivelled and landed again.
Those 40 seconds represented what Nasa engineers called a “Wright Brothers moment” — the first powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet.
Project scientists applauded as altimetry data arrived at mission headquarters, Jet Propulsion Lab in California, confirming the success of Ingenuity’s maiden flight.
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