It is hitching a ride on the Perseverance rover. NASA's Perseverance rover will look for signs of past life in a region of Mars where the ancient environment is believed to have been favorable for microbial life. Technicians attached the first-of-its-kind Mars Helicopter to the belly of NASA's Perseverance rover … The helicopter will be deployed onto the Martian surface about two-and-a-half months after Perseverance lands. The newest Mars rover's pioneering passenger has come aboard. The Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, is a technology demonstration to test powered flight on another world for the first time. The Mars Helicopter, visible in lower center of the image, was attached to the belly of NASA's Perseverance rover at Kennedy Space Center on April 6, 2020. Mission Name: Mars 2020 Rover Name: Perseverance Main Job: The Perseverance rover will seek signs of ancient life and collect rock and soil samples for possible return to Earth. A series of flight tests will be performed over a 30-Martian-day experimental window that will begin sometime in the spring of 2021. Launch Window: July 20 - Aug. 11, 2020 Launch Location: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida Landing: Feb. 18, 2021 Landing Site: Jezero Crater, Mars Mission Duration: At least one Mars year (about 687 Earth days)