NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Fifth Flight Lands in New Airfield May 8, 2021 Usaadmin Mars, NASA </p> <p>NASA’s Ingenuity #MarsHelicopter completed its fifth flight with a one-way journey from Wright Brothers Field to a new airfield 423 feet (129 meters) to the south on May 7, 2021.</p> <p>Ingenuity climbed to a new altitude record of 33 feet (10 meters). The flight is part of the rotorcraft’s transition to its new operations demonstration phase. This phase will focus on investigating how a rotorcraft can be used, and demonstrate products that only a rotorcraft can provide from its aerial vantage point.</p> <p>Ingenuity became the first #aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet on April 19, 2021, from Wright Brothers Field in Jezero Crater, #Mars.</p> <p>Credit to : NASA</p> <p>
