Ingenuity Helicopter Concludes Historic Mars Mission, Mars Equator’s Frozen Past Revealed

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter has concluded its groundbreaking mission on Mars, marking a historic achievement as the first aircraft to perform a powered, controlled flight on another planet. Meanwhile, new findings from the Chinese rover Zhurong suggest that Mars' equator may have once been frozen, challenging our understanding of Mars' climate history and raising questions about the planet's potential for past habitability.

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https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/nasa-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-final-flight
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