The little chopper rose 66 feet (20 meters) above the red dirt during its Sept. 16 sortie.
in February 2021 on the floor of the 28-mile-wide Jezero Crater, which harbored a big lake and a river delta long ago. inside Jezero and collecting samples that'll be returned to Earth in the future. Ingenuity is serving as a scout for the rover team, helping find good routes for Perseverance's travels and identifying promising science targets to investigate.
The rotorcraft is doing this work on an extended mission. Its primary mission aimed to show that aerial exploration is possible on Mars despite the planet's . Ingenuity completed that proof-of-concept assignment over the course of five flights a few months after touching down on the Red Planet, and then it just kept on flying.
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