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First Aerial Color Image of Mars
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First Aerial Color Image of Mars

NASA / JPL · 2021-04-23 · photograph (digital archive)

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This is the first color image of the Martian surface taken by an aerial vehicle while it was aloft. The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured it with its color camera during its second successful flight test on April 22, 2021. At the time this image, Ingenuity was 17 feet (5.2 meters) above the surface and pitching (moving the camera's field of view upward) so the helicopter could begin its 7-foot (2-meter) translation to the west — away from the rover.

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Credit lineFirst Aerial Color Image of Mars. NASA/JPL, 2021-04-23. Public domain. ID: PIA24593.
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