Ingenuity's 7th flight on Mars! Extended cut from helicopter's view

Mars helicopter Ingenuity aces 7th flight on the Red Planet!

Good Wednesday Afternoon my Brothers and Sisters... I bring you a short clip of our MARS Ingenuity Helicopter's 7th flight... Although out of video range by Perseverance, the visual you see is from Ingenuity's navigation camera, so you are seen the ground where the sun lit surface shows the shadow of it flying over the Martian surface. It flew for 62.8 seconds and traveled approximately 106 meters south to a new landing spot as released my NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

Here is the detail by NASA:

"NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity now has seven Red Planet flights under its belt. The 4-lb. (1.8 kilograms) chopper took to the Martian skies again on Tuesday (June 8), making its first sortie since battling through an in-flight anomaly on May 22. And there were no problems this time around.

"From a helicopter team member: 'No anomalies in flight 7, Ingenuity is healthy!' NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which manages Ingenuity's mission, wrote via Twitter on Tuesday evening.

Ingenuity lifted off around 12:34 local mean solar time on Tuesday, which corresponds to 11:54 a.m. EDT (1554 GMT). As planned, the chopper then traveled 348 feet (106 meters) south from its previous location on the floor of Mars' Jezero Crater, staying aloft for nearly 63 seconds, JPL officials wrote in another tweet. The solar-powered rotorcraft set down at a new airfield, the fourth one it has reached since landing on the Red Planet with NASA's Perseverance rover on Feb. 18.

Ingenuity deployed from Perseverance's belly on April 3. That milestone started the clock ticking on the helicopter's 30-day flight campaign, which was designed to show that powered, controlled flight is possible in the Red Planet's thin air.

Ingenuity performed five flights during that technology-demonstrating campaign, then embarked on an extended mission, which aims to showcase the scouting potential of Martian rotorcraft." NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

Enjoy!
Kerry
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