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PIA24127: Helicopter Above Perseverance on Mars

This illustration depicts Mars Helicopter Ingenuity during a test flight on Mars.

Mission:	Mars Helicopter
Spacecraft:	Ingenuity
Product Size:	3840 x 3255 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:	JPL
Full-Res TIFF:	PIA24127.tif (13.9 MB)
Full-Res JPEG:	PIA24127.jpg (689 kB)

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This illustration depicts Mars Helicopter Ingenuity during a test flight on Mars. Ingenuity was taken to the Red Planet strapped to the belly of the Perseverance rover (seen in the background).

Ingenuity, a technology experiment, will be the first aircraft to attempt controlled flight on another planet. It will arrive on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021, attached to the belly of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. Ingenuity is expected to attempt its first flight test in spring 2021.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory built and will manage operations of Perseverance and Ingenuity for the agency. Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages JPL for NASA.

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

Image Credit:

NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:

2020-10-01