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September 1st, 2023
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
More air time for NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter.
New imagery shows the August 26th flight, the date for the craft’s 56th soaring journey.
The stats: Horizontal Distance roughly 1,345 feet (410 meters); Maximum altitude about 39 feet (12 meters); Flight duration 140.9 seconds.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Black and white imagery was acquired by the rotorcraft using its navigation camera, mounted in the helicopter’s fuselage and pointed directly downward to track the ground during flight.
Color imagery was also gained using Ingenuity’s high-resolution color camera, mounted in the helicopter’s fuselage and pointed approximately 22 degrees below the horizon.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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