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The American space agency has successfully flown a small helicopter on Mars.
The drone, called Ingenuity, was airborne for less than a minute, but Nasa is celebrating what represents the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft on another world.
Confirmation came via a satellite at Mars which relayed the chopper’s data back to Earth.
The space agency is promising more adventurous flights in the day’s ahead.
Ingenuity will be commanded to fly higher and further as engineers seek to test the limits of the technology.
Getting airborne on the Red Planet is not easy. The atmosphere is very thin,
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