Ingenuity has been busy lately.
on Saturday , achieving a flight of just over 55 seconds. The 4-pound rotorcraft soared roughly 33 feet in the air and moved about 365 ft before alighting in a new location, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, which manages the missions of both Ingenuity and Perseverance.Ingenuity is helping Perseverance explore Jezero Crater, which hosted a lake and a river delta in the ancient past.
The team has framed the sample-return mission, and Perseverance's cache of samples, as crucial to help understand the history of the Red Planet and the potential forIngenuity's shadow is visible at the bottom left of this image during its 33rd flight, on Sept. 24, 2022. Perseverance, meanwhile, met some challenges while trying to perform a rock abrasion earlier in the week. AWednesday from JPL said the rock, nicknamed"Chiniak," completely broke apart after the Martian surface reacted in an unexpected way to Perseverance's tools.
"While we had to forgo abrasion proximity science on this target, we gained information about the cohesiveness and strength of the rock and had the opportunity to observe and compare both freshly broken and weathered rock surfaces," Eleanor Moreland, a Ph.D. student at Rice University, wrote in the post.
"Thanks to the quick work of the science and engineers, a new target was selected for a successful abrasion just a couple of days later," Moreland added.
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