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The tiny helicopter that flew on Mars

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We took humanity's greatest aerodynamic achievements and casually shipped them to a frozen, irradiated wasteland millions of miles away. NASA's Ingenuity drone managed to miraculously generate lift in a Martian atmosphere that is merely one percent the density of Earth's. It is essentially a high-tech toy that proved we can bring noise pollution anywhere.

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