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Welcome to Science News, the podcast that takes you to the frontiers of exploration and discovery. Today, we examine a groundbreaking event in planetary science: the first investigation into an aircraft crash on another world.
NASA’s Ingenuity, the trailblazing helicopter on Mars, suffered a crash on January 18, 2024, marking an unexpected milestone. Ingenuity, which first took flight on April 19, 2021, was humanity’s inaugural flying machine to operate on a planet other than Earth. Each of its flights defied expectations, showcasing the remarkable ingenuity of its design team. But during its 72nd flight, a malfunction in its navigation system led to damage that concluded its flying mission.