Ingenuity Mars helicopter

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Flight in a thin atmosphere

Ingenuity Mars helicopter

Ingenuity demonstrated powered, controlled flight on another planet in April 2021. Its light structure and fast-turning counter-rotating rotors addressed the challenge of the thin Martian atmosphere.

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Collection: Technology
Section: Space exploration
Model: 9,092 triangles · 0.6 MB

Model coverage and boundaries

11 web meshes; 9,092 triangles; 9 embedded image textures. Explosion is a digital inspection aid, not a mechanical or construction simulation.

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11 web meshes; 9,092 triangles; 9 embedded image textures. Explosion is a digital inspection aid, not a mechanical or construction simulation.

Changes: Geometry and materials reserialized; Draco re-encoding may discard degenerate faces. Embedded textures reduced to at most 512 pixels per dimension. Original files retained privately.

Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech. Distributed by NASA. Educational/informational use under NASA media guidelines; no endorsement implied. Geometry and any supplied textures belong to this exact official package. No CC0 assertion.

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Meshes are normalized for viewing. Display size is not a measurement tool. This is an educational exterior/surface visualization; unmodeled interiors and hidden systems are not inferred.

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Retrieved 16 October 2026. Original SHA-256: d9ebff90d0475d0be0f9dc241e69bb1700d86c702a1f289578c35f4fefc9f19f. Original and audit evidence retained privately. Full rights entry.