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Watch the Ingenuity helicopter’s first flight on Mars

Humans just made history: flying an autonomous helicopter on another planet, more than 100 million miles away.

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Humans just made history: flying an autonomous helicopter on another planet, more than 100 million miles away.

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  1. Claire Reilly

    April 20, 2021 at 12:24 am

    Genuinely excited to see what comes after this! Do we: A) Send these helicopters to new planets to explore even more? or B) Perfect this technology so I can get my own Mars Jetpack?

  2. Tacos & Gold Chainz

    April 20, 2021 at 12:35 am

    This was actually created in Nevada. The earth is flat.

    • Tacos & Gold Chainz

      April 20, 2021 at 12:35 am

      and space doesn’t exist.

    • PATRICK BYTHROW

      April 20, 2021 at 12:57 am

      I’m flat.

    • PATRICK BYTHROW

      April 20, 2021 at 12:57 am

      ​@Tacos & Gold Chainz I don’t exits.

    • Hermit

      April 20, 2021 at 1:28 am

      @PATRICK BYTHROW not for long if you got the vax

  3. pj48

    April 20, 2021 at 12:37 am

    If there is a big storm on Mars, is there a way for the helicopter to go back into Ingenuity?

  4. C.A.K. S.

    April 20, 2021 at 12:42 am

    So Disappointing.Was Hoping the distance flown would equate the Wright Bros. on Dec 17 1903: 852 feet or .26 km or 260 m or 284 yards.

    • PATRICK BYTHROW

      April 20, 2021 at 12:53 am

      That you could me disappointed in any degree . . .

  5. Soupatra Sarkar

    April 20, 2021 at 12:43 am

    ❤️🔥🙏👍

  6. Limbu Yakthung

    April 20, 2021 at 12:48 am

    👍👍🙏

  7. RanDom JamAican

    April 20, 2021 at 12:49 am

    🤣 American propaganda smh

  8. PATRICK BYTHROW

    April 20, 2021 at 12:51 am

    Ultimate proof of concept test. Thank you ma’am for your comprehensive report on this exhilarating human achievement.

  9. Noah Murphy

    April 20, 2021 at 12:51 am

    This definitely is an historic day in America or the world but I don’t know what the point is to waste so much money on this historic project if we’re sending humans to Mars in the year 2024/2025 because of SpaceX

    • PATRICK BYTHROW

      April 20, 2021 at 1:03 am

      Waste, spend or invest? How do you define the difference?

    • Noah Murphy

      April 20, 2021 at 1:13 am

      @PATRICK BYTHROW I would like NASA to invest into technology to support human life on Mars and let SpaceX take care of the transportation not rovers because of having humankind to be multi planet species would have some perks like if something went wrong on earth the human species will not go instinct because we have already have a colony or a civilization on Mars would you agree that is a better way to spend the money?

  10. Raynold Vezina

    April 20, 2021 at 12:53 am

    A waste of money.

    • PATRICK BYTHROW

      April 20, 2021 at 12:56 am

      Right? We could have created more fighter aircraft, or killer drones here on Earth. What are these scientists thinking?

  11. Klaus Zungler

    April 20, 2021 at 12:53 am

    The Wrigh Brothers were not the first to fly a motorized plane, it was a German Karl Litho and the first man to fly a glider was also a German Karl Lielintal

    • C. L.

      April 20, 2021 at 1:11 am

      Prove it.

    • jmgmarcus

      April 20, 2021 at 1:22 am

      You are correct, the Wright Bothers were the first at “manned flight”.

  12. eerienine

    April 20, 2021 at 12:54 am

    It was the Wright Flyer or just the flyer….Kitty Hawk was the location in NC. Great vid thanks CNET.

  13. Superlative CG

    April 20, 2021 at 12:57 am

    If Mars had been smaller like the moon, it would not have enough gravity to hold an atmosphere for there to be enough air for a helicopter to fly.

  14. Yogesh P

    April 20, 2021 at 1:01 am

    👏

  15. Low Profile

    April 20, 2021 at 1:01 am

    I want to have my hand on the joystick and test out that little bad boy

  16. burjalmadre

    April 20, 2021 at 1:03 am

    Is her mouth ok? 😥😧

  17. ahmad alqaisi

    April 20, 2021 at 1:08 am

    Looks like normal dessert in earth

    • Hermit

      April 20, 2021 at 1:21 am

      Look at 1:10 then look at the mountains in the picture I posted

    • Hermit

      April 20, 2021 at 1:22 am

      Well, if they would stop deleting my comments

  18. C. L.

    April 20, 2021 at 1:09 am

    Where at in Arizona did this happen?

  19. Hermit

    April 20, 2021 at 1:13 am

    I feel sorry for anyone that thinks this is real. It’s just earth with a red tint.

    • Pollux95630

      April 20, 2021 at 1:24 am

      I feel sorry for those who believe every stupid conspiracy theory on YouTube over getting a real education.

  20. yalmadiable

    April 20, 2021 at 1:16 am

    I wonder why they managed to take videos of landing on ground and a flying drone but didn’t show the best real genuine images of the space journey?

    • Hermit

      April 20, 2021 at 1:25 am

      You know why

  21. Jake M

    April 20, 2021 at 1:17 am

    The name of the plane is “Wright Flyer”, Kitty Hawk is the name of the town in North Carolina where the test flight was performed 👍

  22. Sean Joy

    April 20, 2021 at 1:24 am

    other than those morons wearing double masks for some reason. bravo!

  23. Michael Nitsch

    April 20, 2021 at 1:26 am

    i can see it now soon flight to Jupiter gate 5 and flight to mars gate 8 pluto gate 3!

  24. Niluksha Akmeemana

    April 20, 2021 at 1:28 am

    DJI about to send it

  25. Ludo De Greef

    April 20, 2021 at 1:29 am

    dear miss and people of CNET, please get your facts right. The wrights brothers were not the first to have a powered flight and this has been proven. The smitsonian will claim the wrights brothers were the same .. because they are obliged to by contract in order to be able to display the Wrights-brothers plane.
    Typical US … too often claiming to be the best, the first, … and no sence of true history

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