65dBnoiseMar 10, 2023

#Ingenuity flew its #Flight47 on Sol 729. Here is the landing:

10 processed, stabilized HELI_NAV images, animated at 5 fps
Sol: 729, RMC: 0.None, LMST: 16:08:41
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00729/ids/edr/browse/heli/HNM_0729_0731670527_974ECM_N0470001HELI04878_0000A0J01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

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Possible location and orientation of #Ingenuity when it captured the RTE-47-8 image posted earlier in this thread. If this is right, the #MarsHelicopter flew sideways near the end of #Flight47.

Could it have flown backwards at the start of the flight to capture the rover too?

EDIT: Revised the RTE location estimates according to the official flight path. RTE 47-0 is a wish waiting to come true 🙂

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Mar 10, 2023 at 3:46pmWeb
Show threadLoyMar 10, 2023
@65dBnoise With this arrangement or heli vs rover, would it be possible to get some video of Perseverance driving on Mars? Or is there such video already perhaps?
Show thread65dBnoiseMar 10, 2023

@loy
Not of the rover driving, because it's stationary when the heli flies.

The monochrome NAV camera that is capable of capturing images rapidly enough for a video looks straight down, while the color RTE camera has a much slower rate, since it produces a huge (for the hardware) 25MB file for each image, compared with a ~300kB of a NAV cam one.

Show threadLoyMar 10, 2023
@65dBnoise Ah, of course. I was hoping that, while the heli was landed, the RTE camera might be pointed in the right direction. And, yeah, processing 25MB frame video is a bit much indeed.
It's kinda weird to think that there's no video of the rover really in action.
Show thread65dBnoiseMar 10, 2023
@loy
Ha ha, we have come to expect the impossible from that pair of crafts on Mars 😃. I would be nice of course, but the RTE camera normally points ~45° below the horizon, so unless it is on a favorable slope, it's hard to make it see the rover, even if were close enough for a good picture/video.
Show threadLoyMar 10, 2023
@65dBnoise yeah, figured. And landing it on the edge of an outcrop just to get a video is a bit much too. Alas