End of Mission

One year ago on this day, Perseverance lost her little flying companion Ingenuity to the dunes of Valinor Hills.

📷 NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß @stim3on
ℹ️ https://science.nasa.gov/resource/ingenuity-at-valinor-hills/

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Very dusty yet beautiful: Valinor Hills, where Ingenuity has fallen, captured by Perseverance's Mastcam Zoom camera, from her vantage viewpoint on the slopes of the crater rim.

#Mars Sep. 28, 2024 (Sol 1282)
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

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#Ingenuity is seen here sticking its solar panel above the sandy waves of #ValinorHills in this image from Sol 1152 received today. While the solar panel of the #MarsHelicopter may still be visible from the rover at its present location on Sol 1159, it will soon disappear when #Perseverance clears the ripples it's facing on its way northwest to Bright Angel.

Processed, leveled MCZ_LEFT
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01152/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_1152_0769214813_848EBY_N0522638ZCAM09188_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

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Here is the new image selected by public vote and featured as "Image of the Week" for Week 168 (April 28 - May 4, 2024) of the Perseverance rover mission on Mars.

Not quite easy to spot, at the image's center, it features the stranded Ingenuity helicopter

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/ZL0_1138_0767969390_223EBY_N0520870ZCAM09166_1100LMJ

This image was acquired on May 3, 2024 (Sol 1138)
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

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Ingenuity

Captured today by Perseverance with her Supercam.

This image was acquired on May 4, 2024 (Sol 1139).
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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP @IRAP

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Valinor Hills, where Ingenuity the little Martian helicopter, is stranded - but still recording data.

The copter is quite difficult to spot at this scale - see next post for a zoom

View acquired yesterday, April 24, 2024, Sol 1130, by Perseverance. Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

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Wow that's cool: Ingenuity will continue to serve as a stationary testbed, collecting data that could benefit future explorers of the Red Planet. Her memory could potentially hold about 20 years’ worth of these daily data.

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-2020-perseverance/ingenuity-helicopter/nasas-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-team-says-goodbye-for-now/

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Ingenuity at Valinor Hills

image acquired by Perseverance on April 4, 2024 (Sol 1110).
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

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