164K views · 1.4K reactions | ‘It’s a success!’ — Watch scientists at NASA celebrate the Ingenuity Mars helicopter achieving the first-ever ‘controlled, powered flight on a planet beyond Earth.’ The 19-inch-tall helicopter flew for 40 seconds at 3 meters above the Martian surface in what project manager MiMi Aung called NASA's 'Wright brothers moment.’  | NowThis | Facebook

VIDEO: Engineers think they've found a way to fly a helicopter through an atmosphere so thin, it compares to an altitude of 100,000 feet on Earth, where no existing helicopter could possibly fly. STORY: https://www.wthr.com/article/nasas-mars-helicopter-gets-its-first-mission | WTHR-TV