And so, if we started with first demonstrating lift with a one third scale vehicle here in a chamber of Mars like atmospheric density and somebody's outside trying to joystick this to fly, we achieve lift but not control.

Way learned that the dynamics on Mars in this thin atmosphere is very different.

And so next we built, uh, full scale vehicle with on board real time, closely control, all the while weighing under 1.8 kg.

That's £4.

So what you're seeing on the video here is one of our many, many flights that we, uh, experimented with this 1.8 kg Mars helicopter and you see the helicopter flying.

It looks very easy when you look at it, but you're looking at a room with atmosphere about 1% compared to the room that you're sitting in right now.

The next major milestone will be when Perseverance Rover delivers ingenuity to the surface of Mars.

You'll see that the debris shield that protects the helicopter and dissent is first deployed, and then the helicopter is deployed by what's called them Mars helicopter Delivery System.

It's a very intricate system that's going to take about 10 days to go through these Siri's that you're seeing to drop ingenuity to the surface and that drug.

The moment that drop happens is the moment that ingenuity has to start operating on its own in a standalone fashion has to survive.

The cold, frigid nights of Mars minus 90 degrees Celsius keep itself warm.

It has to garner energy from the sun through a solar panel to trust his bury.

It has to talk to the space station.

It has to do all of that in this little £4 and then we will go for that very important first flight.

Robert will stay at least 100 m away, and we'll be watching.

Ingenuity and ingenuity will take his first flight.

The first flight will ascend to about 3 m in height and hover for about 20 seconds, and it will be performed the very first ever powered control flight on another planet.

And as Thomas Mission at the beginning of this event, it will be truly the Wright Brothers moment.