'There's something on your foot, Mars Helicopter!'
, the helicopter snapped images of a "small piece of foreign object debris" during its 33rd flight, which took place over the weekend. The small object wasn't visible during Ingenuity's preceding flight.
Footage shows the straggling, cloth-like object hanging onto one of the helicopter's four legs during lift off before harmlessly drifting away. NASA says that the "Ingenuity and Perseverance Mars 2020 teams are currently working to determine the source of the debris."The small four-pound helicopter has surpassed all expectations and is still embarking on flights almost a year and a half after itsAnd that's bound to be a huge strain on its hardware. While we're still unsure of the foreign object's origins, it fortunately doesn't sound like it's going to slow the little helicopter down.
"All telemetry from the flight and a post-flight search and transfer are nominal and show no indication of vehicle damage," NASA wrote in its update.
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