Perseverance Takes a Selfie With Ingenuity. It’s Almost Time to fly
Perseverance Takes a Selfie With Ingenuity. It’s Almost Time to flyPerseverance is having a proud parent moment in this image, looking like it’s waiting with a child at the bus stop on the first day of school.
The Mars 2020 rover took this selfie with the Ingenuity helicopter, which is preparing to take the first controlled flight ever on another world. On April 3rd, Ingenuity was removed from its carbon-fiber compartment on the underside of Perseverance. Subsequent checkouts of Ingenuity are going well (engineers on Earth commander the rotors to turn yesterday, see below) and on Sunday, April 11th, it will make its first attempt at a powered flight.
The selfie was taken on April 6 (Sol 46 of the mission) with a camera called WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgin...