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Tech Demo: The Mars Helicopter is a technology demonstration, hitching a ride on the Perseverance rover Main Job: Seek signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and regolith (broken rock and soil) for possible return to Earth. body: a structure that protects the rover's "vital organs" brains: computers to process information temperature controls: internal heaters, a layer of insulation, and more neck and head": a mast for the cameras to give the rover a human-scale view The Mars Helicopter Name Ingenuity Main Job A technology demonstration to test the first powered flight on Mars. The helicopter will ride to Mars attached to the belly of the Perseverance rover. It takes a team to make something, but a family to make the Mars Rover. Our journey has just begun... All information from: mars.nasa.com