The #MarsHelicopter is nearly ready to take off. Join the ride on http://nasa.gov/live

than Earth's.

From the press kit:

Mars has a rarefied atmosphere – just about 1% of the density of our atmosphere on Earth. Because the Mars atmosphere is so much less dense, Ingenuity is designed to be light, with rotor blades that are much larger and spin much faster than what would be required for a helicopter of Ingenuity’s mass on Earth. Mars does give the helicopter a little help: The gravity there is only about one-third that of Earth’s. That means slightly more mass can be lifted at a given spin rate.

Ingenuity will attempt up to five test flights within a 30-Martian-day (31-Earth-day) demonstration window.

Its pioneering aspirations are similar to those of the Wright brothers' Flyer, which achieved the first powered, controlled flight on Earth.

world out there with terrain that looks like a remote area on Earth. Also makes me wonder if there is varied terrain with features other than that reddish dirt and stones?

Some interesting pics here

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/images/index.html