How is Ingenuity providing new insight into Mars' past? 🛰️
NASA designed Ingenuity to show that controlled flight was possible on the red planet and that future missions could use drone-like aircraft to explore the cosmos.
The machine has now far exceeded those parameters, and it is now effectively working as an aerial scout, helping the Perseverance team on Earth to decide on the optimal route for their Mars rover.NASA announced in April it had extended the Ingenuity mission to scout an ancient delta on Mars. Ingenuity has now surveyed the area near that delta in Mars' Jezero Crater, providing new insight into, as well as images of, an intriguing ridgeline.
The new images, taken by Ingenuity on April 23, during the helicopter's 27th flight, show a rocky outcrop that's been called"Fortun Ridge" by the Perseverance team, due to its resemblance to a parish in Norway. "Ingenuity not only provides imagery from an aerial perspective, but allows our team to be two places at once on Mars," said Ken Farley of Caltech, Perseverance's project scientist.
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