Ingenuity achieves its thirteenth flight on Mars
It is estimated that the images captured by helicopter will provide information of interest to the scientists of rover Perseverance
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter covered its thirteenth successful flight on Mars this September 5, exploring future targets of interest to the Perseverance rover from the air.
Ingenuity, the world’s first controlled flight powered aircraft, imaged southwesterly crossing the area known as Seitah to explore an area of outcrops that were glimpsed in images in the opposite direction of Flight 12.
The photo taking focused on one particular ridge and its outcrops. For higher resolution, Ingenuity flew 8 meters high, as opposed to 12 meters in the previous flight.
The images overlaid from a lower altitude should provide valuable information for Perseverance scientists and rover tour planners, according to mission officials.
This Flight 13 covered about 210 meters in about 161 seconds, flying at 3.3 meters per second. With the 10 images from this 12th flight, the helicopter has already taken 72 color images of 13-megapixel and 1,390 black and white navigation camera images.
Source: dpa
