The new photos show images taken on April 19th.
Ingenuity captured images that shows debris from the Mars landing site featuring Perseverance’s parachute and backshellfrom the Ingenuity helicopter offer a fresh perspective of the wreckage left behind when the Perseverance rover landed on Mars last year, NASA saidon the Red Planet in 2021, with the mission of finding ancient signs of life on Mars. The rover carried the
Ingenuity helicopter onboard — an experimental project that scientists on Earth hoped would be able to see sights that the rover couldn’t. Perseverance went through a grueling process known as the seven minutes of terror to descend onto the Martian surface. As it entered the atmosphere, a heat shield helped protect the rover from the blistering heat of reentry and slowed it down dramatically. After that, the massive parachute deployed out of the backshell , slowing it down even more.
Ingenuity captured images that show debris from the Mars landing site featuring Perseverance’s parachute and backshell.Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech “Perseverance had the best-documented Mars landing in history, with cameras showing everything from parachute to inflation to touchdown,” Ian Clark, former engineer of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory,. “Ingenuity’s pictures offer a different vantage point. If they either reinforce that our systems worked as we think they worked or provide even one dataset of engineering information we can use for Mars Sample Return planning, it will be amazing.