Mars Ingenuity takes flight! Watch the first out-of-this-world video

Today, NASA made interplanetary history: The Mars helicopter Ingenuity made the first powered, controlled flight off the surface and into the air on another world.

At 07:34 UTC (3:34 Eastern US time) — just after noon local time on Mars — the twin-bladed drone made a vertical test flight, going 3 meters above the ochre Martian dust, hovered stably for 30 seconds, and then landed once again. Nothing like this has ever been attempted before on another planet, and it’s the harbinger of many more s...