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With Successful 10th Flight, Ingenuity Has Now Flown More Than a Mile on Mars - Gizmodo
Jul 25, 2021 44 secs
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter successfully completed its 10th flight on Mars on Saturday, bringing its total distance flown on the Red Planet to more than one mile (roughly 1.60 kilometers) and capturing important images to help out its friend, the Perseverance rover.

In a Twitter post early Sunday, NASA confirmed that its helicopter had flown over an area called “Raised Ridges,” which is part of a fracture system that the Perseverance team finds intriguing and is considering visiting sometime in the future.

Tzanetos explained that the flight, which NASA hasn’t published full details on yet, would begin with Ingenuity taking off from its sixth airfield and then moving south-by-southwest about 165 feet (50 meters).

Next, the helicopter will take two images of Raised Ridges from distinct waypoints looking south.

It has also given us new views of the Red Planet, taking 43 13-megapixel color images and 809 black and white navigation images.

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