Edit...Reham Mosad

NASA officials released the first footage of an Anginioti helicopter flying over Mars, on the first flight controlled by a vehicle on another planet.

The short clip was sent to Earth shortly after NASA obtained confirmation that the rotor from outside this world had successfully flown.

The helicopter can be seen hovering 10 feet above Mars for about 30 seconds.

NASA said that Angiotti's first flight opens the door to further aerial exploration of the Red Planet. The Agency will send the vehicle for further flights before the completion of its mission - scientists hope to "push it to the limit," in the words of Team Leader Mime Aung.

In the video, Anginioti can be seen starting to rotate its blades, getting it to full speed (five times faster than the Earth's rotary helicopter), and then lifting itself 3 metres (10 feet) above Mars. And then, hovering around, spinning around Perseverance, gently lowering back into the dust.

Aung and her team said that the short flight matched a pre-flight simulation with a T.

Pilot Havard Ghraib said during a press conference hours after the pre-programmed 173 million mile flight: "I did exactly that. From everything we've seen so far, it's been a flawless journey. "

Michael Watkins, director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said: What the Ingenioti team has done is free us from the surface now forever in the exploration of planets. We can now combine the rooftop trajectory with surface sampling, reconnaissance and even scientific experiments on the inaccessible locations of the rover. "