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December 21st, 2023
image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter has completed flight #69, doing so on December 20.
Horizontal distance flown was 705 meters (roughly 2,315 feet), gaining a maximum altitude of 16 meters (approximately 52 feet). The duration of the flight was 135.4 seconds.
In total, the Ingenuity flight log now is 69 flights, with an accumulated flight time of some 125.5 minutes and a total distance flown of 10 miles (16,711 kilometers). The highest altitude reached by the mini-rotorcraft is 24 meters, roughly 79 feet above the surface of the Red Planet.
Since its first flight on April 19, 2021 the aerial craft has attained a maximum ground speed of 22.4 miles per hour (10 meters a second).
Dynamic duo: Earlier released image captures Ingenuity Mars helicopter and Perseverance rover.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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