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Ingenuity will fly up 16ft in the air then travel 276ft over Martian landscapes
It will cross rocks, sand ripples and impact craters, taking photos as it moves
This is pushing the envelope of what is possible for the small test vehicle
It was designed as a technical demonstration to see if a flying component would be viable and possible for future planetary science and exploration missions
NASA has shared a bird s eye view image of the Perseverance rover, taken by the Ingenuity helicopter as it soared above the Martian surface.
In a tweet, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) team said: I spy with my little eye…a rover, sharing the image with Perseverance visible in the top left corner.
It was taken during the third flight of the autonomous copter that happened on April 25 and saw it fly to an altitude of 16ft and travel for 64ft before landing again.
At the peak it was moving at 6.6ft per second, or 4.5 miles per hour. In contrast, the Perseverance rover, captured in the latest images, travels at 0.1 miles per hour.
NASA s Mars helicopter is going bigger and bolder TODAY! Ingenuity will attempt its second flight this morning, climbing even higher and performing a tricky tilt before moving sideways through the Martian atmosphere
Ingenuity made its first historic flight on another world early on Monday morning flying 10ft up into the sky
For the second flight it will go higher and do more than the first flight including taking first colour photos
NASA says Ingenuity will snap a series of colour images of the Martian horizon, turning the craft slowly
It will fly up to 16ft above the Wright Brothers Field where it takes off, tilt slightly and move 7ft sideways