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Wait —there's a helicopter on Mars?

Conor Dillon | Gabriel Borrud
April 13, 2021

Yes, there really is. Perched inside a crater on Mars, a boxy little drone-copter is set to become the first aircraft to ever fly on another planet. But how'd it get there? Who's controlling it? What are the odds it'll crash (or get blown away)? And if we've already got rovers, who needs drones?

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