- Flight: 46
- Flight date: No earlier than 02/25/2023
- Horizontal flight distance: 1,461 feet (445 meters)
- Flight time (nominal, w/ max divert): 136.27 seconds
- Flight altitude: 40 feet (12 meters)
- Heading: Southwest
- Flight speed: 11.9 mph (5.3 meters per second)
- Goal of flight: Reposition of the helicopter and scout future airfields
Mars Helicopter
STATUS UPDATES |
February 24, 2023
Flight 46 Preview – By the Numbers
Mars Helicopter Sol 714 - Navigation Camera: NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter acquired this image using its navigation camera. This camera is mounted in the helicopter's fuselage and pointed directly downward to track the ground during flight. This image was acquired on Feb. 22, 2023 (Sol 714 of the Perseverance rover mission) at the local mean solar time of 17:08:32. This was the date of Ingenuity's 45th flight.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
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These blog updates are provided by the Mars Helicopter team. The Mars Helicopter is a technology demonstration to test the first powered flight on Mars.
Dates of planned test activities are subject to change due to a variety of factors related to the Martian environment, communication relays, helicopter and/or rover status.
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