Preview of Flight 52
Mars Helicopter Sol 772 - 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 23, 2023 (Sol 772 of the Perseverance rover mission) at the local mean solar time of 15:23:55. This was the date of Ingenuity's 51st flight.
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- Flight 52
- Expected Flight date: 04/26/2023
- Horizontal flight distance: 1191.522 feet (363.176 meters)
- Flight time: 138.88 seconds
- Flight altitude: 40 feet (12 meters)
- Heading: West
- Max Flight speed: 8.3 mph (3.7 meters per second)
- Goal of flight: 1) Reposition of the helicopter, 2) imaging targets
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