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A very big question
Can a helicopter fly on Mars? Nobody knew. No one had ever flown a helicopter or an airplane on another planet.
So a team at NASA decided to find out. They built a little helicopter. They named it Ingenuity.
Ingenuity was small. On Earth it weighed about 4 pounds.
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That's lighter than most house cats!
More facts (Grades 3–5)
Ingenuity was a technology demonstration, a test of something new. It carried no science instruments. Its whole job was to show that flying on Mars could work.