A NASA Mars orbiter has already managed to pick out the car-sized Perseverance rover on the martian surface. But now it has spotted something even smaller.
It was already impressive when NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter managed to spot the Perseverance rover soon after it landed on the martian surface last year.
Comprising little more than a small metal box and a set of four-foot-long blades, Ingenuity is tiny compared to the car-sized rover, and therefore much harder to spot from up high. Since reaching Mars in February 2021, and after taking its historic maiden flight two months later to become the first aircraft to achieve powered and controlled flight on another planet, Ingenuity has gone on to complete a further 22 flights, with more being lined up. To date, its longest single trip involved a flight of just over 631 meters, while its flight time record stands at 169.5 seconds.
Two hundred meters to the east of Ingenuity, Perseverance can be more easily identified in this HiRISE image.
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