NASA Mars Ingenuity helicopter successfully makes first one-way trip - CNET
With its fifth flight overall, Ingenuity also achieved an altitude record above the surface of Mars.
One of the navigation cameras aboard NASA's Mars Perseverance rover captured this image of the Ingenuity helicopter's fifth flight.The Mars Ingenuity helicopter's new theme song should be Blondie's One Way or Another.Once it hit that mark, it achieved a height record of 33 feet (10 meters) to snap images of the terrain.
The Ingenuity team used the rotorcraft's fourth flight to scout out the new landing spot, which NASA described in a statement as "flat as a pancake." The space agency doesn't want its experimental machine to touch down on rocks that might tilt it.