NASA’s Perseverance rover captured part of the Ingenuity helicopter’s 47th flight to the Red Planet.
As reported by Ukrinform, this was reported by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in 2019. twitter.
“These images were taken by Perseverance on March 9, 2023, when the Mars helicopter began its 47th flight,” JPL said.
In the lab too Additionalalready today, March 18, Ingenuity will make its next flight.
The device is expected to fly 388 meters at a maximum altitude of 12 meters for more than 142 seconds.
As Ukrinform reports, Perseverance was sent to Mars along with the Ingenuity helicopter as part of a NASA research mission on February 18, 2021.
One of its missions is to collect rock samples on Mars, which will be taken to Earth by a special joint mission of the European Space Agency and NASA.