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“We had liftoff!”

That’s the word from JPL detailing the successful flight 31 on September 6^th of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter. The mini-craft flew 318 ft (97 meters) west towards the Jezero river delta, in 55.6 seconds.

Maximum altitude reached: 33 feet (10 meters)

Go to the helicopter’s flight log at: https://go.nasa.gov/3BmhGib

A photo posted is from the helicopter’s navigation camera mounted in the craft’s fuselage and pointed directly downward to track the ground during flight.

This image above was acquired on Sept. 6, 2022 (Sol 550 of the Perseverance rover mission), the date of Ingenuity’s 31st flight.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech