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Perseverance and Ingenuity helicopter

by

Nasa/JPL-Caltech/Novapix

Reference

e-son27-64034

Date

2021-04-08

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took a selfie with the Ingenuity helicopter, seen here about 13 feet (3.9 meters) from the rover in this image taken April 6, 2021, the 46th Martian day, or sol, of the mission by the WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgineering) camera on the SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals) instrument, located at the end of the rover's long robotic arm.
Perseverance's selfie with Ingenuity is made up of 62 individual images stitched together once they are sent back to Earth.