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

For the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, it is up and at ‘em for flight 53.

The aerial device made its last flight back on April 27.

JPL notes that the craft has an expected flight date of July 22.

The stats for this high-flying run are:

Horizontal flight distance: 666.34 feet (203.1 meters)

Flight time: 136.82 seconds

Flight altitude: 32 feet (10 meters)

Heading: North

Max Flight speed: 5.6 mph (2.5 meters per second)

Goal of flight: Scouting flight

Meanwhile, new black and white as well as color imagery from the craft, acquired on July 14, have been posted.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech