Now Landing in Living Rooms: LEGO Models of NASA Mars Rover and Helicopter

While NASA’s Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter are busy exploring Mars, one-tenth-scale buildable models of them have begun touching down in homes around the globe.

Developed in cooperation with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, a new LEGO Technic building set is based on the real rover and helicopter, which have been roaming through Mars’ Jezero Crater since landing there in February 2021. In its search for signs of ancient microbial life, Perseverance has been collecting Mars rock and soil samples for potential return to Earth by a future campaign. And Ingenuity became the first aircraft to perform powered, controlled flight on another planet, and since then has gone on to complete more than 50 additional flights.