Video of the possibility of life on Mars | Britannica

What you are seeing on the Mars surface is not a UFO or alien drone. It is NASA’s Mars helicopter called Ingenuity. Ingenuity arrived on Mars with the Perseverance rover in 2021. Its mission was to: Test powered flight on another planet Take aerial images of the Martian surface Help rovers choose safe paths Mars has very thin air, so Ingenuity uses fast-spinning blades to fly. It became the first aircraft to fly on another planet in history. Ingenuity proved that flight on Mars is possible, open