Ingenuity spent nearly three years enhancing the science of the ongoing Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission and demonstrating operations for future aerial scouts.
Credit: JPL/Caltech-ASU/MSSS
Mars Perseverance rover scientists had hoped to dispatch NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter early this spring to Bright Angel, an outcrop of rock in the river inlet valley running into Jezero Crater, the site of an ancient lake. “This could be the first taste of crater rim rocks or sediments deposited...
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