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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Ingenuity, the NASA’s robotic helicopter, operating on which astronomical body?
A
Moon
B
Mars
C
Venus
D
Jupiter
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Ingenuity landed with NASA’s car-sized Perseverance Mars rover in February 2021 inside the 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) Jezero, which hosted a big lake and a river delta billions of years ago.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, is a technology demonstration to test powered, controlled flight on another world for the first time. It hitched a ride to Mars on the Perseverance rover.

Detailed explanation-3: -Its original mission was simply to demonstrate the ability to fly a helicopter in Mars’ thin atmosphere. After three successful flights proving the technology-and marking the first powered flight on another planet-NASA shifted Ingenuity into an operational mode with a further two flights.

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