PIA23161: Monitoring the Mars Helicopter
Members of NASA's Mars Helicopter project observe a flight test. The image was taken on Jan. 18, 2019 as the flight model of the Mars Helicopter was tested in the Space Simulator at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
 Mission:  Mars Helicopter 
 Spacecraft:  Ingenuity
 Product Size:  7273 x 4854 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
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Teddy Tzanetos, MiMi Aung and Bob Balaram of NASA's Mars Helicopter project observe a flight test. The image was taken on Jan. 18, 2019 as the flight model of the Mars Helicopter was tested in the Space Simulator, a 25-foot-wide (7.62 meter-wide) vacuum chamber at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

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

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2019-03-28