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Dynamic duo: Ingenuity Mars helicopter iand Perseverance rover.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter is on the glide path for flight #70!

According to a Jet Propulsion Lab posting the expected flight date was slated to be December 22.

If all goes according to plan, or already went well, the horizontal flight distance by the mini-chopper would be
nearly 850 feet (258.735 meters), with an expected flight time of 129.37 seconds.

Buzzing above the Red Planet, the craft’s flight altitude would reach roughly 40 feet (12 meters) and headed West. The goal of flight 70 is repositioning the helicopter at Jezero Crater.

The aerial vehicle just chalked up its 69^th flight on December 20.

This image was acquired on December 20 from the craft using its navigation camera, mounted in the helicopter’s fuselage and pointed directly downward to track the ground during flight.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Mars Helicopter image acquired December 22 by helicopter’s navigation camera mounted in the vehicle’s fuselage and pointed directly downward to track the ground during flight.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech