Mars Helicopter Sol 776 – Navigation Digital camera: 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 27, 2023 (Sol 776 of the Perseverance rover mission). This was the date of Ingenuity’s 52nd flight.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
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- Flight 53
- Anticipated Flight date: 07/22/2023
- Horizontal flight distance: 666.34 ft (203.1 meters)
- Flight time: 136.82 seconds
- Flight altitude: 32 ft (10 meters)
- Heading: North
- Max Flight pace: 5.6 mph (2.5 meters per second)
- Objective of flight: 1) Scouting flight
