NASA鈥檚 Perseverance rover captured this image of the Ingenuity helicopter NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
NASA鈥檚 helicopter Ingenuity has taken more than 2200 photographs of Mars since arriving on the planet just over a year ago.
Ingenuity was designed to scout out potential routes for the six-wheeled Perseverance rover to travel across Mars鈥檚 45-kilometre-wide Jezero crater, while it searches for signs of ancient microscopic life.
Ingenuity is fitted with two cameras, a 0.3-megapixel black-and-white navigational camera and a 13-megapixel colour camera that is similar to the average smartphone camera.
By its 18th flight in December 2021, Ingenuity had taken 2277 photos…
