Spacecraft · Mars helicopter
Ingenuity
- Agency
- NASA
- Launched
- 2020
- Type
- rotorcraft
- Status
- completed (2024)
NASA/JPL-Caltech · NASA media (public domain)
Overview
Scientific overview
Ingenuity is a mars helicopter, operated by NASA, launched in 2020.
Mission
- Agency
- NASA
- Launched
- 2020
- Type
- rotorcraft
- Status
- completed (2024)
Gallery
Bottom of Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
An Ingenuity team member inspects NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter in one of the space simulation chambers at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
2021
NASA/JPL-Caltech · NASA media (public domain)
Observation
How this was captured
- Source
- NASA
- Observation date
- 2020-04-29
Targets & destinations
Sources
The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.
- NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.
Most NASA-produced imagery is in the public domain; individual items are checked for usage terms before publication.
- NASA JPLJet Propulsion Laboratory / Solar System Dynamics
Orbital data, ephemerides, and small-body parameters for planets, asteroids, and comets.