Mars Helicopter Updates - NASA Science (original) (raw)

Rover, Helicopter Locations in Jezero Crater

Unlocking the Martian Skies – Using Ingenuity as a Martian Testbed for Future Rotorcraft

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Unlocking the Martian Skies – Using Ingenuity as a Martian Testbed for Future Rotorcraft

Ingenuity Reestablishes Communications

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On Saturday, Jan. 20, communications were reestablished between Ingenuity and NASA’s Perseverance rover.

Flight 72 Status Update

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On Jan. 18, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter executed its 72nd flight at the Red Planet. The flight was designed as a quick pop-up vertical flight to check out the helicopter’s systems, following an unplanned early landing during its previous flight.

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter acquired this image using its navigation camera. This camera is mounted in the helicopter's fuselage and pointed directly downward to track the ground during flight.

Flight 72 Preview – By the Numbers

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Flight 72 Preview – By the Numbers

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter acquired this image using its navigation camera. This camera is mounted in the helicopter's fuselage and pointed directly downward to track the ground during flight.

Flight 71 Preview – By the Numbers

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Flight 71 Preview – By the Numbers

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter acquired this image using its high-resolution color camera. This camera is mounted in the helicopter's fuselage and pointed approximately 22 degrees below the horizon.

Flight 70 Preview – By the Numbers

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Flight 70 Preview – By the Numbers

The Right Stuff

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Long before Ingenuity’s historic first flight on Mars, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California and their collaborators at AeroVironment Inc. were already moving the boundaries of human knowledge and aeronautic achievement with

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter acquired this image using its high-resolution color camera on Dec. 2, 2023.

Flight 69 Preview – By the Numbers

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Flight 69 Preview – By the Numbers

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter acquired this image using its navigation camera. This camera is mounted in the helicopter's fuselage and pointed directly downward to track the ground during flight.

Flight 68 Preview – By the Numbers

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Flight 68 Preview – By the Numbers

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter acquired this image using its navigation camera. This camera is mounted in the helicopter's fuselage and pointed directly downward to track the ground during flight.

Flight 67 Preview – By the Numbers

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Flight 67 Preview – By the Numbers