All things wild and wonderful must come to an end. NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter suffered a “hard landing” on January 18’s 72nd flight, damaging one or more rotor blades, rendering it no longer capable of flight. The aircraft remains upright and in radio contact with Earth-bound controllers, but its remarkable run as the first “aircraft” to fly aerodynamically above another planet is over.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/nasas-ingenuity-mars-copter-ends-a-remarkable-run