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November 2nd, 2023
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter made its flight #64 on October 27, 2023.
According to NASA/JPL’s posting, the craft flew a Horizontal distance: 411 meters (roughly 1,348 feet; gained a Maximum altitude of 12 meters (roughly 39 feet); and carried out its flight in 139.1 seconds.
This technology demonstration craft has now accumulated an overall flight time of roughly 117.6 minutes; Distance flown of 9 miles ( roughly 14,903 kilometers); and has soared to roughly 79 feet (24 meters) in altitude since its first flight back on April 19, 2021.
Imagery posted from the October 27 flight taken by the chopper’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
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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