Mars Helicopter Sol 881 – 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 Aug. 12, 2023 (Sol 881 of the Perseverance rover mission) on the native imply photo voltaic time of 13:07:41. This was the date of Ingenuity’s fifty fifth flight.
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- Flight 56
- Anticipated Flight date: 08/25/2023
- Horizontal flight distance: 418 meters
- Flight time: 136 seconds
- Flight altitude: 12 meters
- Heading: NW
- Max Flight pace: 5.3 meters per second
- Purpose of flight: Reposition of the helicopter
