For the first time ever, a flight delay has occurred on another planet due to bad weather.
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The Ingenuity helicopter, which was slated to take to Martian skies on January 5, had to push its 19th flight back because of an unusually strong regional dust storm on Mars, according to NASA. Now, the team anticipates that this flight will take place on Sunday, January 23. While Mars is smaller and has a less dense atmosphere than Earth, the red planet still experiences the changing of the seasons and high winds, dust storms and ice clouds.
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