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These amazing images, published Wednesday (27April2022) show NASA?s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter surveying the debris of both the parachute that helped the agency?s Perseverance rover land on Mars and the cone-shaped backshell that protected the rover in deep space and during its fiery descent toward the Martian surface on Feb. 18, 2021. Engineers with the Mars Sample Return program asked whether Ingenuity could provide this perspective. What resulted were 10 aerial colour images taken 19 April during Ingenuity?s Flight 26. NASA extended Ingenuity flight operations to perform pioneering flights such as this, said Teddy Tzanetos, Ingenuity?s team lead at NASA?s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Every time we

These amazing images, published Wednesday (27April2022) show NASA?s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter surveying the debris of both the parachute that helped the agency?s Perseverance rover land on Mars and the cone-shaped backshell that protected the rover in deep space and during its fiery descent toward the Martian surface on Feb. 18, 2021. Engineers with the Mars Sample Return program asked whether Ingenuity could provide this perspective. What resulted were 10 aerial colour images taken 19 April during Ingenuity?s Flight 26. NASA extended Ingenuity flight operations to perform pioneering flights such as this, said Teddy Tzanetos, Ingenuity?s team lead at NASA?s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Every time we

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These amazing images, published Wednesday (27April2022) show NASA?s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter surveying the debris of both the parachute that helped the agency?s Perseverance rover land on Mars and the cone-shaped backshell that protected the rover in deep space and during its fiery descent toward the Martian surface on Feb. 18, 2021. Engineers with the Mars Sample Return program asked whether Ingenuity could provide this perspective. What resulted were 10 aerial colour images taken 19 April during Ingenuity?s Flight 26. NASA extended Ingenuity flight operations to perform pioneering flights such as this, said Teddy Tzanetos, Ingenuity?s team lead at NASA?s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Every time we

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