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Flight 51 Preview – By the Numbers

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.
Mars Helicopter Sol 763 - 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 April 13, 2023 (Sol 763 of the Perseverance rover mission) at the local mean solar time of 15:07:40. This was the date of Ingenuity's 50th flight.
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  • Flight 51
  • Expected Flight date: 4/18/2023
  • Horizontal flight distance: 592.6 feet (180.623 meters)
  • Flight time: 130.32 seconds
  • Flight altitude: 40 feet (12 meters)
  • Heading: West
  • Max Flight speed: 9 mph (4 meters per second)
  • Goal of flight: 1) Reposition of the helicopter, 2) imaging targets

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