The little chopper traveled 1,280 feet (390 meters) during its Thursday (Feb. 16) sortie.
Jezero is a great place to do such work, mission team members have said: The 28-mile-wide crater hosted a big lake and a river delta billions of years ago.in a patch of Jezero that the rover team calls Three Forks. The 10 tubes in the Three Forks depot will be collected by Ingenuity-like helicopters late this decade if Perseverance isn't healthy enough to deliver its onboard samples to a rocket-toting lander itself.
Perseverance is now beginning to climb up Jezero's ancient delta formation, to explore this different and intriguing environment. The rover has put 9.05 miles on its odometer since touching down,
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