NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory has confirmed flight #70 of the Ingenuity Mars helicopter. The flight occurred on December 22, 2023, flying a horizontal distance of 260 meters (roughly 853 feet), gaining a maximum altitude of 12 meters (approximately 39 feet) and flew for 132.9 seconds over martian landscape.

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 Dec. 22, 2023. This was the date of Ingenuity’s 70th flight.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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