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50 flights on Mars
Nearly two years ago, our Ingenuity helicopter became the first aircraft to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet.
Ingenuity was designed as a technology demonstration of no more than five flights: instead, it just took its 50th trip on the Red Planet on Thursday, April 13. Ingenuity's 50 flights have taken it more than 11,500 meters (38,000 ft) over the surface of Jezero Crater, with a total flight time of nearly 90 minutes.
Ingenuity arrived on Mars after a 300-million-mile (480 million km) trip with NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover; now, Ingenuity and Perseverance are working together, scoping out the Martian ground and air: https://go.nasa.gov/3KH3KCK
