Watch NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Fly in 3D

MARTIAN - 3D VIDEO!!!

Well, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) took it upon themselves to create a 3D video of our MARS helicopter, "Ingenuity" in flight... Now I need to search for my 3d glasses, that are hidden in a drawer some place, but I can well imagine that it looks pretty cool to see Ingenuity in flight on one of our solar system's planets some 2-million miles from Earth... Check it out or go find your 3D glasses first and check it out! LOL!

What JPL had to write:
"After the zoomable dual-camera Mastcam-Z imager aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover captured the third flight of the agency’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter on April 25, 2021, Justin Maki, an imaging scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, led the team that stitched the images into a video. The frames of the video were then reprojected to optimize viewing in an anaglyph, or an image seen in 3D when viewed with color-filtered glasses. If you don’t have 3D glasses, you can make your own at home: go.nasa.gov/3xJTClv."

A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust).

Subsequent NASA missions, in cooperation with ESA (European Space Agency), would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these sealed samples from the surface and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis.

The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration approach, which includes Artemis missions to the Moon that will help prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet.

JPL, which is managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, California, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover.

The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was built by JPL, which also manages the technology demonstration project for NASA Headquarters. It is supported by NASA’s Science, Aeronautics Research, and Space Technology mission directorates. NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, and NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, provided significant flight performance analysis and technical assistance during Ingenuity’s development. AeroVironment Inc., Qualcomm, and SolAero also provided design assistance and major vehicle components. Lockheed Martin Space designed and manufactured the Mars Helicopter Delivery System." JPL

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS

I hope you enjoy it... let me know if you have the 3D glasses and how it appeared...
Kerry
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