It s scheduled to conduct its most daring flight yet within days.
Ingenuity was expected to crash last month, but the helicopter has exceeded expectations.
A month ago, NASA was preparing to sacrifice its Mars helicopter in the name of science.
Ingenuity was designed to soar five times over the Martian surface as a technology demonstration. With each flight, NASA engineers were pushing the 4-pound rotorcraft as far and fast as it would go, so they anticipated that it would eventually crash.
But time and again, Ingenuity wasn t felled not by the strong Martian winds, clouds of copper dust, or other challenges to its mechanics and navigation system. So by the end of April, NASA announced that it would extend the helicopter s life on Mars.
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