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Illustration of Artwork of Ingenuity helicopter.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter on Mars looks to have made flight 36 on December 10^th.

A pre-flight projection of the airborne vehicle’s flight this time, as noted by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory:

Flight number: 36

— Date of flight: No Earlier Than Dec. 10

— Flight duration: 60.82 seconds

— Horizontal flight distance: 361 feet (110 meters)

— Flight speed (horizontal): 12.3 mph (5.5  mps)

— Max flight altitude: 33 feet (10 meters)

— Flight goal: Reposition helicopter

New imagery

A new set of images from the flight have been posted, taken by the helicopter’s Navigation Camera mounted in the mini-craft’s fuselage and pointed directly downward to track the ground during flight. Images were acquired on Dec. 10, 2022 (Sol 642 of the Perseverance rover mission).

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech