Nasa's Ingenuity helicopter stretched its rotors on Sunday 25 April, taking its third flight on Mars. The flight was Nasa's most ambitious to date, with Ingenuity rising to a height of five metres and then accelerating horizontally for 50 metres before returning to its take-off point.

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