Since its first flight on April 19, 2021, Ingenuity has logged almost 59 minutes in the air and travelled a total distance of 7,392 meters (4.6 miles). Its highest flight to date reached 12 meters above the surface and its longest lasted 169.5 seconds. As previously reported by AVweb, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Ingenuity Mars Helicopter team was awarded the 2021 Collier trophy for accomplishing “the first powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet, thereby opening the skies of Mars and other worlds for future scientific discovery and exploration.”