Why Ingenuity's fifth flight will be different

Pasadena CA (JPL) May 07, 2021

Around the time of our first flight, we talked a lot about having our "Wright brothers moment" at Mars. And that makes a lot of sense, since those two mechanically-minded bicycle builders executed the first powered, controlled flight on Earth, and we were fortunate enough to do the same 117 years later - on another planet. But the comparisons shouldn't stop with a first flight. Ingenuity's