NASA's Ingenuity completes FOURTH flight on Mars

NASA announced Friday that Ingenuity successfully completed its fourth flight, which saw the small helicopter 'fly farther and faster than ever before.'
The $85 million drone traveled 872 feet (266 meters) at a height of 16 feet (5 meters) for two minutes.
The American space agency received the data downlink at 1:39pm ET that showed the copter took off from 'Wright Brothers Field' under the watchful gaze of the Perseverance rover at 10:12am ET.
Perseverance, which sat some 210 feet away, snapped a picture of its travel companion's fourth flight through the thin atmosphere on Mars. 
'Success. #MarsHelicopter completed 4th flight, going farther & faster than ever before. It also took more photos as it flew over the Martian surface. We expect those images will come down in a later data downlink, but @NASAPerseverance's Hazcam caught part of the flight,' NASA's JPL shared on Twitter.

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