This is CBS Eye on the World. From the surface of the planet Earth, we're going to the

surface of the planet Mars. Now and again, ingenuity, the brave little flying toaster Bob Zimmerman

is here, keeps the website behind the black. Following ingenuity, we're exceeding the

back of the envelope for a helicopter on Mars. Bob, how many is this and what are we

going to learn? Good evening to you. Good evening, Johnson. Ingenuity, early this week completed,

it's 26th flight. It's been doing this now for two years. It was only supposed to do

maybe a half a dozen test flights on 30 days and that would test the program and prove

it can work. They proved it could work so well that they can use it and they fly it. And

now you think it's a scouting mission for parts of the Universe? Nothing very ambitious,

but basically scout out the surface of the ground where a performance is going to travel.

Maybe give it some, the performance came a little idea of what rocks to look at. That's

how they use it, but they use it. And this is engineering test. It's really remarkable.

56th flight, it flew about 1300 some odd feet to the northwest. I've got a map on behind

the black so you can get some perspective about where it is, where a person ventures with

two of travel and where they're going. What's really cool about this is that on the same

day they reveal the data on where it flew and how it flew on the 56th flight. They release

their flight plan for the 57th flight, which should happen this coming weekend if everything

goes well and they're going to fly further to the north along the plan or out of first

flight. It's an amazing achievement, John, and the engineers are very proud. They've

now demonstrated unequivocally that a helicopter on Mars can work and work routinely. And in

doing so, they have come up with the engineering, the software, and the techniques for doing

so in the future.

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