NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter will travel with the Perseverance rover through 314 million miles (505 million kilometres) of interplanetary space to get to Mars. "On a Mars rover mission, the addition of even one new washer is usually worthy of debate. The flight model of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. On around the 60th Martian day, or sol, of the mission, Perseverance will drop the Mars Helicopter Delivery System's graphite composite debris shield that protected the helicopter during landing. About six days later, after the helicopter and rover teams are satisfied everything is go, they'll command Mars Helicopter Delivery System to do its thing.

Source: dna June 24, 2020 02:48 UTC