NASA has scored a 21st-century Wright Brothers moment as it sent its miniature robot helicopter Ingenuity buzzing above the surface of Mars for nearly 40 seconds, marking the first powered controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet.Officials at the US space agency hailed the brief flight of the 1.8-kilogram rotorcraft as an achievement that would help pave the way for a new mode of aerial exploration on Mars and other destinations in the solar system, such as Venus and Saturn's moon Titan.The debut flight of Ingenuity, resembling a large metallic tissue box with four legs and a twin-...

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