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Mars Perseverance rover takes selfie with Ingenuity helicopter ahead of historic flight

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To the delight of social media users, NASA’s Perseverance rover used a camera on the end of its robotic arm to snap a selfie with the Mars Ingenuity helicopter this week ahead of its historic flight mission.

Shown about 13 feet apart in the pictures taken on April 6, 2021, or the 48th Martian day of the mission, the rover used its 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.

In a release, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said Wednesday that the selfie had been constructed using 62 individual images — taken in sequence — that were stitched together.
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This will be as historic as the Wright Bros. The image quality is stunning: the probe landed in a big crater. You can see rolling hills off in the distance, the crater's walls.. And this was on Mars. Incredible stuff.
 
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