The tiny helicopter Nasa built to survive 30 days on Mars ended up flying for nearly three years The Times of IndiaMars Perseverance Sol 1932: Right Mastcam-Z Camera mars.nasa.govIngenuity was funded as a technology demonstration with five flights and a thirty-day window, assembled partly from mobile phone components because nothing space-rated was light enough, and it flew seventy-two times across nearly three years before a rot Space DailyNASA’s Supersonic Helicopter Pushes Boundaries on Mars YahooNASA’s Mars helicopter was built to prove that flight was possible in an atmosphere one percent as thick as Earth’s, and it was expected to manage five flights over thirty days, but it flew 72 times across almost three years before a hard landing shattered its rotor Space Daily
