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Emma Bowman

HISTORICAL FACTS: Nasa is looking for ingenuity after losing contact with the mars helicopter | History Defined

An illustration from NASA shows the Ingenuity Mars helicopter on the red planet's surface near the Perseverance rover, left. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)

NASA is back in contact with its beloved helicopter on Mars, Ingenuity, two days after a communication blackout.

Communications broke down on Thursday, when the little autonomous rotorcraft was sent on a "quick pop-up vertical flight," to test its systems after an unplanned early landing during its previous flight, the agency said in a status update on Friday night.

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