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AeitschTi — Ingenuity narrowly misses a new record
Published: 2023-12-19 10:26:31 +0000 UTC; Views: 399; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 0
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Description
Ingenuity performed its 68th flight on Mars on December 15, 2023 (Sol 1002 of the Perseverance mission), 6 days later than originally planned.This flight was planned to be a fly out and return flight with a round trip flight distance of 828 meters, which would have broken the previous record (704 meters, set on 8 April 2022) by 124 meters.
However, the flight ended after 702 meters, two meters less than the previous record.
The helicopter did return back close to its takeoff point, so the outbound leg was cut short for some reason.
Was it a last minute change of plan or was it an actual problem?
Unfortunately, no information is available on this.
The data that is available:
Flight 68
Flight date: December 15, 2023
Horizontal flight distance: 702 meters
Flight time: 131.1 seconds
Flight altitude: 16 meters
Flight direction: Northeast (out & back flight)
Max flight speed: 10 m/s
Goal of flight: Flight Test
Airfield: Same
The image was taken by the navigation camera shortly before landing.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Henning Tritschler
