NASA is preparing to test fly a mini-copter on Mars.

April 4 According to the Wall Street Journal on the 3rd, NASA announced recently that it will fly a $55 million intelligent microcopter on Mars in the near future. The helicopter, named “Ingenuity”, will make its first power flight on thin-air Mars.

NASA plans to take Ingenuity (about 1.8 kilograms) to Mars with the Perseverance Mars rover, and the first test flight process will be controlled within 90 seconds.

NASA said that if the test flight is successful, the process of human exploration of Mars will enter a new era, the era of “drone-led exploration.”