It seems strange to me that there aren't any other scuffs in the regolith made by the rotors when they supposedly hit the ground.
Here is a theory:
• The blades disintegrated in mid-air.
• The scuffs we see were not made by the rotors but by the helicopter's feet; it dropped fast, bounced, and then landed at its final location.
• The disintegrated blades spread to pieces so they are not seen around the incident, except for one which flew south, almost intact.
Crude animation:
Also, there is this item here, which has a strangely gray color to be a stone. It could be a piece of debris from the rotor
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We need another SUPERCAM image of #Ingenuity, but after the upper rotor is moved to west or south, so that the location of that item marked in the animation can be assessed without possibly being obstructed by the half blade.
It may appear as if it is attached to the end of the blade, but that could be an illusion caused by the different perspective between the SUPERCAM and MCZ cameras, the former being 15cm higher than the latter.
That object there, in tosol's image, casts a short shadow, so it must be on the ground, not attached to the rotor as has been hypothesized before. It's either a strangely colored stone or a piece of #Ingenuity's broken blade
EDIT: Not necessarily. See thread
Animation
Fresh, processed, cropped SUPERCAM_RMI
looking NW (319°) from RMC 50.1618
Sol 1075, LMST: 10:24:45
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01075/ids/edr/browse/scam/LRF_1075_0762365327_180EBY_N0501618SCAM01075_0010I9J01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP/65dBnoise
More about what appears to be a delamination of the remaining upper rotor blade of #Ingenuity, seen previously in the SUPERCAM images, and now spotted in a number of HELI_NAV and HELI_RTE images.
This is an animation of cropped RTE images captured over a period of 2 hours.
HELI_RTE
Image captured from RMC 72.0001/7
Sol 1043, LMST: 07:49:07
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01043/ids/edr/browse/heli/HSF_1043_0759514936_834ECM_N0720001HELI00007_000085J01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise
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