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NASA’s Mars helicopter at Jezero Crater has powered up making flight #66, doing so on November 3, and after flying the day before.

According to a NASA/JPL-Caltech posting, the Ingenuity aerial vehicle covered roughly 2 feet in horizontal distance  during a 23 second jaunt, reaching a maximum altitude of some 3 meters (roughly 10 feet).

The November 3 hop adds to the Ingenuity helicopter’s flight time that now has accumulated approximately 118.8 minutes and chalking up 9 miles (roughly 14,910 kilometers) of distance flown. During those flights the mini-chopper reached its highest altitude of 24 meters (roughly 79 feet).

Here are samples of flight #66 imagery taken by the mini-chopper’s black and white and color cameras:

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech