Ingenuity was designed to demonstrate controlled flight on Mars, achieving unprecedented success, but ultimately faced challenges navigating featureless terrain which led to its crash.
Travis Brown emphasized, "We pushed her further, higher, faster than anything we had intended to do," highlighting the ambitious nature of Ingenuity's mission on Mars.
The investigation into Ingenuity's crash revealed that during its 70th flight, the helicopter struggled with visual navigation, culminating in an emergency landing on its 71st flight.
Despite its last flight being a brief vertical hop, Ingenuity lost communication, leading NASA to attribute the failure to navigation issues that caused the hard landing.
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