“The historic flight of Ingenuity, the first spacecraft on another planet, has come to an end,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a video statement. As he said, the reason was that one of the fan blades made of carbon fiber had broken. The accident occurred on January 18, when during a short vertical flight, at an altitude of one meter above the surface, Ingenuity lost contact with the Perseverance rover for unknown reasons.
As Nelson emphasized, despite operating in the extremely thin Martian atmosphere, the machine exceeded all expectations.
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