Mars copter Ingenuity prepares to take the first powered flight on another world

Over Easter weekend, the Mars Perseverance rover dropped its own egg: It deployed the Ingenuity helicopter, a drone that will attempt the first powered atmospheric flight on another planet.

Oh yeah. The future is here.

The copter is called Ingenuity, and it's a technology testbed, which means it's designed to test out various engineering hardware components as opposed to doing scientific research.

It's quite small, standing about half a meter high and with a mass of just 1.8 kilograms (so i...