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Artist’s concept of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flying through the Red Planet’s skies. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flew a 55^th time on August 12. The jaunt involved a horizontal distance of 263.99 feet (roughly 866 meters); altitude reached of 10 feet (roughly 33 meters); and air time was 142.9 seconds.

Imagery taken included these images making use of the mini-copter’s navigation camera mounted in the helicopter’s fuselage and pointed directly downward to track the ground during flight.

Also released are images from the craft’s high-resolution color camera. This camera is 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

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech