Mars helicopter Ingenuity soars on 16th Red Planet flight - Space.com

The little Mars helicopter that could is pushing the limits of Martian flying.

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity has aced yet another Red Planet flight, the little chopper's 16th sortie.

The Mars helicopter Ingenuity made its latest hop on Sunday (Nov. 21), about two weeks after its previous flight.

Related: It's getting harder to fly the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars.

But the chopper's early flights went so smoothly that NASA decided to extend its mission and send the little helicopter to scout out ahead of its larger companion, the Perseverance rover.

Ingenuity's current series of flights is hopping the little helicopter back to the Perseverance rover's landing site at Octavia E.

— Ingenuity spots Perseverance rover from the air (photo) — Ingenuity spotted a 'heart' in Perseverance rover's tracks on 9th flight (video)!

— Mars helicopter spots its Perseverance rover from above in an epic view (video) .