---
title: "Open source goes to Mars 🚀"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/open-source-goes-to-mars--te4shtteu
source_url: https://github.blog/2021-04-19-open-source-goes-to-mars/
type: article
source: "GitHub Blog"
published: 2021-04-19T13:13:46.435Z
updated: 2026-03-15T06:27:19.145Z
tags: ["general-programming", "github", "open-source"]
reading_time: 1
upvotes: 15
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Open source goes to Mars 🚀

**[GitHub Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/ghblog)** · 1 min read · 15 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

The first Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, took flight in the thin Martian atmosphere. This is an incredible achievement for the teams at NASA and the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) It’s also an achievement powered, in part, by an invisible team of open source developers from around the world.

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Tags: [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#github](https://daily.dev/tags/github), [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source)

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