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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Five Meters over Mars
NASA ^ | 10 Aug, 2023 | Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Ingenuity

Posted on 08/10/2023 12:02:02 PM PDT by MtnClimber

Explanation: On mission sol 872 (Earth date August 3) Ingenuity snapped this sharp image on its 54th flight above the surface of the Red Planet. During the flight the Mars Helicopter hovered about 5 meters, or just over 16 feet, above the Jezero crater floor. Tips of Ingenuity's landing legs peek over the left and right edges in the camera's field of view. Tracks visible near the upper right corner lead to the Perseverance Mars Rover, seen looking on from a distance at the top right edge of the frame. Planned as a brief "pop-up" flight, Ingenuity's 54th flight lasted less than 25 seconds. It followed Ingenuity's 53rd flight made on July 22 that resulted in an unscheduled landing.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: mars; nasa
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1 posted on 08/10/2023 12:02:02 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 08/10/2023 12:02:35 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; abb; AFB-XYZ; AFPhys; Agatsu77; America_Right; ...
Pinging the APOD list.

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3 posted on 08/10/2023 12:03:22 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Is that the SS Minnow, lodged between two rocks?


4 posted on 08/10/2023 12:08:28 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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Somebody left their Jeep parked there in the upper right ..................


5 posted on 08/10/2023 12:09:37 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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I would love to hitch a ride there. Do you know what the Rover’s schedule is? And how much is a ticket?


6 posted on 08/10/2023 12:17:43 PM PDT by Deaf and Discerning (Do I need to quote "/sarc"?)
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Is that a Coke can? Who left that?


7 posted on 08/10/2023 12:25:26 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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Hunter.


8 posted on 08/10/2023 12:27:22 PM PDT by null and void (It's 10 o'clock, does the president know where he is?)
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It’s the wrong kind then.


9 posted on 08/10/2023 12:29:51 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: MtnClimber
Apod pics are great, but that one looks a little bland for hanging on the wall... ;-)

Here's 60 meters over Reno for comparison:


10 posted on 08/10/2023 12:48:18 PM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see. #MAGA-AaA)
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Aiyeeee! Landing strips! Ancient river channels! Von Daniken and Graham Hancock were right!


11 posted on 08/10/2023 12:53:10 PM PDT by AFB-XYZ (Stand up, or bend over)
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Thanks.

Looks like Gorebal warming hit Mars a few years ago.


12 posted on 08/10/2023 12:57:45 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Send Asylum Seekers to empty college dorms/class rooms in NY/NJ/Mass/West Point & NE blue citiesl)
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No water so technically a desert planet.

Kind of looks like what I would imagine Arrakis.


13 posted on 08/10/2023 1:03:15 PM PDT by epluribus_2
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Buried Iraqi Mirage fighter?


14 posted on 08/10/2023 1:04:58 PM PDT by epluribus_2
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To: EasySt
"...60 meters over Reno..."

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Looks very familiar to me.
25 years ago I lived in Reno near the summit of Skyline Blvd.

15 posted on 08/10/2023 1:16:39 PM PDT by GaltAdonis (b)
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