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appears wandering above its new airfield while its software decides where to land, during flight 37. The actual images are ~2s apart, but the animation shows them at 1 fps.

5 processed HELI_NAV
RMC: 37.0001 (corrected)
Sol: 649, LMST: 16:32:07
Link: mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-ima
Credit: /JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

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It looks like the heli went where it was told to go, but decided that spot wasn't good enough and went back a few meters (5m) and maybe landed on top of that larger ripple with the heavily textured but nonetheless flat-ish looking top.

The map below shows #Ingenuity at that *hypothetical* location. The 37th flight length in this case would be ~50m as opposed to 55m that was planned.

#MarsHelicopter #Perseverance #Mars2020 #solarocks #space

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