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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter on Mars by Perseverance Mastcam-Z, Sol 768 (53475637956)
semeion.photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß
Taken on 18 April 2023, 18:06:57
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- Marsrover Perseverance Mastcam-Z Sol 768
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About this work
This image of NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter was taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard Perseverance on April 18, 2023, the 768th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission. The helicopter's first flight on Mars was on April 19, 2021.
This is the best look the Ingenuity team has had of the rotorcraft since its first flight.
Small diodes (visible more clearly in this image of helicopter) appear as small protrusions on the top of the helicopter's solar panel. The panel and the two 4-foot (1.2-meter) counter-rotating rotors have accumulated a fine coating of dust. The metalized insulating film covering the exterior of the helicopter's fuselage appears to be intact. Ingenuity's color, 13-megapixel, horizon-facing terrain camera can be seen at the center-bottom of the fuselage.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, California, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover. Arizona State University leads the operations of the Mastcam-Z instrument, working in collaboration with Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego, on the design, fabrication, testing, and operation of the cameras, and in collaboration with the Niels Bohr…
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