The first helicopter attempting to fly on another planet is a marvel of engineering. Get up to speed with these key facts about its plans.

PASADENA, Calif. (NASA PR) — When NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida later this summer, an innovative experiment will ride along: the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. Ingenuity may weigh only about 4 pounds (1.8 kilograms), but it has some outsize ambitions.