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NASA's Perseverance Captures Video, Audio of Fourth Ingenuity Flight – NASA's Mars Exploration Program - NASA Mars Exploration

NASA's Perseverance Captures Video, Audio of Fourth Ingenuity Flight – NASA's Mars Exploration Program - NASA Mars Exploration

NASA's Perseverance Captures Video, Audio of Fourth Ingenuity Flight – NASA's Mars Exploration Program - NASA Mars Exploration
May 07, 2021 1 min, 21 secs

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used one of its two microphones to listen as the Ingenuity helicopter flew for the fourth time on April 30, 2021.

With Perseverance parked 262 feet (80 meters) from the helicopter’s takeoff and landing spot, the rover mission wasn’t sure if the microphone would pick up any sound of the flight.

“This is a very good surprise,” said David Mimoun, a professor of planetary science at Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace (ISAE-SUPAERO) in Toulouse, France, and science lead for the SuperCam Mars microphone.

“We had carried out tests and simulations that told us the microphone would barely pick up the sounds of the helicopter, as the Mars atmosphere damps the sound propagation strongly.

The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was built by JPL, which also manages the technology demonstration project for NASA Headquarters.

It is supported by NASA’s Science, Aeronautics Research, and Space Technology mission directorates.

The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust)

The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration approach, which includes Artemis missions to the Moon that will help prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet

JPL, which is managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, California, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover

Managed by the Mars Exploration Program and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate

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