Perseverance Rover and Ingenuity Flight Tests in Jezero Crater

摘要

At the time of this writing, it is May 15, 2021 that is Sol 83 for the Perseverance "Percy" Rover on Mars. Last month, we witnessed the deployment and first flight of the Mars Ingenuity helicopter. With the world watching the first powered aerial flight on another planet, Ingenuity has accomplished successively more difficult flight tests this month while Percy observes and relays flight data and images to Earth. The location where Percy has been observing Ingenuity's powered controlled flight is called "Van Zyl Overlook," after Jakob van Zyl, a leader at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.