Ingenuity just set new personal bests for speed and distance.
, the greatest distance covered by the helicopter had been 2,051 feet , achieved during a flight in July 2021. Its previous speed record was 5 meters per second, which it reached on multiple flights. .
Friday's sortie didn't set a duration record, however; that mark is 169.5 seconds, set during an August 2021 flight. Ingenuity landed on the floor of Mars' Jezero Crater in February 2021 with NASA's life-hunting, sample-cachingrover. The little chopper deployed from the rover's belly that April and embarked upon a five-flight, one-month mission designed to show that aerial exploration is possible on Mars despite the planet's thin atmosphere.
Ingenuity quickly left that initial campaign in the dust. It's now flying on an extended mission, pushing the boundaries of Martian flight and performing reconnaissance for Perseverance, which is making its way to an accessible remnant of theFriday's flight was the second in five days for Ingenuity and its fifth sortie in the last month. Such activity isn't surprising; Perseverance has been making serious tracks on its drive to the delta, and Ingenuity needs to keep up.
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