Mars Helicopter Sol 763 – Navigation Digicam: NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter acquired this picture utilizing its navigation digital camera. This digital camera is mounted within the helicopter’s fuselage and pointed instantly downward to trace the bottom throughout flight. This picture was acquired on April 13, 2023 (Sol 763 of the Perseverance rover mission) on the native imply photo voltaic time of 15:07:40. This was the date of Ingenuity’s fiftieth flight.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
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- Flight 51
- Anticipated Flight date: 4/18/2023
- Horizontal flight distance: 592.6 ft (180.623 meters)
- Flight time: 130.32 seconds
- Flight altitude: 40 ft (12 meters)
- Heading: West
- Max Flight velocity: 9 mph (4 meters per second)
- Purpose of flight: 1) Reposition of the helicopter, 2) imaging targets
