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April 12th, 2022
Click to enlarge. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter continues to showcase its “Wright Stuff,” recently completing its 25th flight on April 8th.
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter acquired this image using its navigation camera mounted in the helicopter’s fuselage and pointed directly downward to track the ground during flight. This image was acquired on April 8, 2022 (Sol 403 of the Perseverance rover mission) at the local mean solar time of 10:05:30. This was the date of Ingenuity’s 25th flight.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Indeed, the collective flight stats are impressive:
- Distance Flown: 5,824 meters (roughly 19,109 feet)
- Highest Altitude: 12 meters (roughly 39 feet)
- Fastest Ground Speed: 5.50 m/s (12.3 mph)
- Flight Time: roughly 46.5 minutes (2,791 seconds)
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