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“The Perseverance rover is currently too far away to attempt to image the helicopter at its final airfield.”

Abbey A. Donaldsonnasa.gov ↗

Ingenuity was built for five flights over 30 days and flew 72 times from 48 airfields over nearly 1,000 Martian days. Flight 72 on January 18 lost contact about 3 feet off the ground and ended with broken rotor blades. NASA got 33 times the mission it paid for. The first aircraft on another planet now sits where nobody can even take its picture.