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It's May 11th.

I'm Bethany Van Delft and this is the 10 News, where we get the lowdown on what's up in this world

and beyond.

You know it. Today we're blasting off to explore some out of this world space news.

So let's get to the 10.

Things are looking up when it comes to exploring space, especially on Mars, where NASA recently landed a rover named Perseverance.

But Perseverance didn't come to the red planet alone.

The rover arrived with a cool sidekick attached to its belly, a robot helicopter named ingenuity. Cool!

Ingenuity may only be four pounds and stand less than two feet tall, but it just accomplished

something no other Earth robot has. It became the very first powered aircraft to fly on another planet. Wow.

Ingenuity had to be cleverly engineered to soar through Mars's sky. The atmosphere there is

very thin, so they give it special carbon filter blades that spin much faster than a regular

helicopters blades here on Earth.

The little robot also has to withstand extreme temperatures. At night, it could get down to negative

130 degrees Fahrenheit. Ingenuity also powers itself. It has solar panels that it uses to charge up for a flight.

Ingenuity was only supposed to take four flights,

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