The Ingenuity copter is the first vehicle to perform a powered, controlled flight over the surface of an alien world.
Perseverance caught the images with its two-camera Mastcam-Z: one clip shows the take-off and landing of the four-pound rotorcraft, while the other shows its flight profile as it travels over the martian surface.
"The value of Mastcam-Z really shines through with these video clips. Even at 300 meters away, we get a magnificent closeup of takeoff and landing through Mastcam-Z's right eye," deputy principal investigator for the Mastcam-Z instrument at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory , Justin Maki, said. Séítah is made up of ridges and outcrops in a Jezero Crater, an ancient lake bed leftover from a period at leastFlying above Séítah at an altitude of 26 feet, the Mars Ingenuity Helicopter collected images of a rocky outcrop from various angles.team to gain insights into the Jezero Crater and, specifically, into the geological processes that formed the characteristics of Séítah.
Studying Séítah is an important part of our exploration of Mars. As an exposure of the oldest geologic unit on the Jezero crater floor, the feature contains olivine and hydrated minerals that record volcanism and other geological processes that occurred on ancient Mars. After hovering briefly, it returned to the surface of Mars. Though short the demonstration was an important milestone in our exploration of space, showing that a rotor-based craft can pilot through the thin atmosphere of Mars., waiting for Mars to pass from around the opposite side of the sun from the earth.
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