Who knew you could see such a tiny Mars helicopter from orbit?
The Ingenuity helicopter, circled in red, seen from space on Mars on March, 31 2022.
The spacecraft might be a bit hard to spot in the black-and-white image, but annotated versions from the space agency show the pair from above. In the image,"Percy" can be seen sitting on the cracked surface of a large rock formation called"Máaz," the Navajo word for"Mars." About 656 feet to the left of the rover, Ingenuity sits on the bedrock. A number of Martian features have been givenRelated Stories:
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