The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (Nasa’s) Mars drone helicopter, Ingenuity, made a successful fifth flight on Friday. This was another landmark sortie by the little aircraft, which lasted 108 seconds and which set a new altitude record of 10 m. But the key importance of this flight was that it was a one-way affair. Instead of returning to the landing site that it has hitherto used, Ingenuity touched down at a new location, 129 m to the south of its original ‘base’, named Wright Brothers Field. During the flight it captured high-resolution colour images of the area around its new landing site.
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