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Is This a Helicopter on Mars?
First test flight was just fly up for a few meters, turn round, i think, 96 degrees, and fly down. More flights are planned for the next few weeks to try and put it through more of its paces. The signal from the helicopter was beamed to the rover that was then beamed to an orbiter which was then beamed back to a big dish here on earth. It's a very, very long way away, so this was kind of autonymous.
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