Mars Helicopter Ingenuity’s 3rd flight in 4K for 100 meters distance

HERE IS THE 3rd FLIGHT VIDEO WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR TODAY!!!

Yep! It is true, this is the video of the 3rd Flight of Ingenuity! It flue to a predetermined height of 5-meters (16.5 feet) and a distance of of about 50-meters or 164-feet and returned to land at its home base (another 164 feet), so all told it flew about 330 feet... Controlled from about 295,517,226 kilometers or 183,625,891 miles from Earth... Tell me that isn't absolutely amazing! WOW!

Here is what NASA stated:

"On April 25, 2021 NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter completed 3rd 100-meters longwise flight sending 4K UHD images from onboard camera. There are 3 onboard 4K images from Ingenuity’s 3rd flight on Mars. For the third flight altitude is 5 meters, but increasing max airspeed from 0.5 meters per second to 2 meters per second (about 4.5 mph) as we head 50 meters (164 feet) north and return to land at Wright Brothers Field. Total flight time of about 80 seconds and a total distance of 100 meters (330 feet).

While that number may not seem like a lot, consider that we never moved laterally more than about two-pencil lengths when we flight-tested in the vacuum chamber here on Earth. And while the 4 meters of lateral movement in Flight Two (2 meters out and then 2 meters back) was great, providing lots of terrific data, it was still only 4 meters. As such, Flight Three is a big step, one in which Ingenuity will begin to experience freedom in the sky. Mounted in the helicopter’s fuselage and pointed approximately 22 degree below the horizon, Ingenuity’s high-resolution color camera contains a 4208-by-3120-pixel sensor. There is also 4K video of 2nd flight of Ingenuity on Mars (enhanced using AI Engine)."

Credit: nasa.gov, NASA/JPL-Caltech, NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

Enjoy!!!
Kerry
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