Here is the whole image, from #Flight66, Sol 962:
For the record, a couple of images from #Ingenuity's short #Flight66 have arrived too.
Image captured from RMC 66.0001/530
Sol 962, LMST: 10:13:23
Heavily processed to bring out regolith shades, HELI_NAV
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00962/ids/edr/browse/heli/HNM_0962_0752333092_372ECM_N0660001HELI00530_0000LUJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise
The approx. radio coverage plot doesn't look that great for the UHF radio link from #Perseverance to #Ingenuity from its RMC 47.0000 location. No line-of-sight, and more than 1km distance. If the commands for #Flight65 and #Flight66 reached the heli, then hopefully a few images from the heli can make it back to the rover, confirming the success of those flights.
Or, we may have to wait till after the solar conjunction to know what happened.
#Ingenuity is flying #Flight65 AND 😯 #Flight66. That's right, two flights one after the other, the first today (in about 15 minutes), and the second on Thursday.
They are both short distance flights to reposition the heli, one 7m to the west, and the other 0.5m to the south. Can't even guess why those would be necessary 🤔. Feel free to speculate 😀
Here are the announcements:
https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/493/flight-65-preview-by-the-numbers/
https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/494/flight-66-preview-by-the-numbers/
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