Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Logs Flight 47! 🔴

NASA ^ | March 13, 2023

[Ezekiel]

Flight Log

Flight 47
Sol 729
Date March 9, 2023
Horizontal Distance 440 m ~1,444 ft
Max. Altitude 12 m ~39 ft
Max. Groundspeed 5.30 m/s ~11.9 mph
Duration 146.1 sec
Route of Flight from Airfield Theta to Airfield Iota

Flights
47
(as of 3/9/23)

Distance Flown
10,544 meters
(~34,595 ft)

Highest Altitude
14 meters
(~46 ft)

Fastest Ground Speed
6 m/s
(13.4 mph)

Flight Time
~81.9 minutes
(4,911 seconds)

[Ezekiel]

Ginny the California Girl is at it again. 🌞

[EasySt]

This flight’s images:

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/?begin_sol=729&end_sol=729&af=HELI_NAV,HELI_RTE

Cool fuzzy (cloud? Whirlwind?) shadow passing by in frames 4 and 5...

[BipolarBob]

Does he have to call control tower to ask permission to land on runway 3? To make sure no other aircraft in the area?

[Ezekiel]

Looks like they make more sense when turned 90 deg CW:

😇

[BlueMondaySkipper]

With an atmosphere that is less than 1% as dense as here in earth, it must be quite the helicopter to be able to fly there.

[TChad]

With an atmosphere that is less than 1% as dense as here in earth, it must be quite the helicopter to be able to fly there.

Yes.

Four-foot rotor blades spin at 2400-2900 RPM.