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#Perseverance has another chance to get a glimpse of #Ingenuity at its sandy retirement resort in the following sols, and it may be the best of all, closer and from a different perspective than previously. Images taken with the SUPERCAM telescope may now capture landing marks from #Flight71, for which there is very little information available (the flight log still has no distance data for either #Flight71 or #Flight72) .

What's encouraging is that there
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Mar 26, 2024 at 3:15pmWeb
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seems to be no good alternative route for the rover through the rocky and sandy terrain it is currently in, judging by the altitude contours in that area.

The fact that #Ingenuity's team has not yet posted their promised article about the #MarsHelicoptercrash may be an indication that they may be expecting to find more evidence or verify their hypotheses with images captured from a new perspective and a closer distance.

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