PIA22460: Mars Helicopter (Artist's Concept)
This artist concept shows the Mars Helicopter, a small, autonomous rotorcraft, which will travel with NASA's Mars 2020 rover mission to demonstrate the viability and potential of heavier-than-air vehicles on the Red Planet.
 Mission:  Mars Helicopter 
 Spacecraft:  Ingenuity
 Product Size:  3840 x 2160 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA22460.tif (15.4 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA22460.jpg (533 kB)  

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This artist concept shows the Mars Helicopter, a small, autonomous rotorcraft, which will travel with NASA's Mars 2020 rover mission, currently scheduled to launch in July 2020, to demonstrate the viability and potential of heavier-than-air vehicles on the Red Planet.

For more information about the mission, go to https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2018-05-25