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Ingenuity Helicopter is Ready to Drop
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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter can be seen here with all four of its legs deployed before dropping from the belly of the Perseverance rover on March 30, 2021, the 39th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. This image was taken 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.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineIngenuity Helicopter is Ready to Drop. NASA/JPL, 2021-04-01. Public domain. ID: PIA24449.
