The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, the One Percent Atmosphere That Forced Rotors to Spin at Twenty-Four Hundred RPM, and What Aviation's First Interplanetary Rotorcraft Taught Engineers Back on Earth
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter completed 72 flights on Mars before its rotor blades were damaged in January 2024, and its engineering breakthroughs are directly shaping autonomous aviation on Earth.
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