Although the helicopter, aptly named Ingenuity, is only a technology demonstrator, and flight operations will occupy but a small fraction of the time Mars 2020 is devoting to its science missions ...

Pathfinder and Perseverance (Mars 2020) missions, as rendered using flowers. The float's Mars Helicopter took flight at the control of two drone pilots who were on board (the drone was also ...

One of my gripes with "The Martian" movie was the depiction of the winds on Mars. The lower air density means that the sort of high speed winds we might experience on Earth carry far less of an impact ...