<ul><li>NASA's Ingenuity helicopter crashed on Mars due to inaccurate data from the navigation system and lack of landmarks on smooth terrain.</li><li>Ingenuity, part of the Mars 2020 mission, became the first robotic rotorcraft to fly in the Martian atmosphere.</li><li>Flight 72, which ended in a crash, revealed that the navigation system couldn't find features to track, leading to a hard landing and damage to the rotors.</li><li>Although Ingenuity can no longer fly, it will provide weather and avionics data to the Perseverance rover.</li></ul>

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