Anon. reminds that it continues to break all sorts of solo powered flight records, on Barsoom.

According to Space.com, and the official mission log dashboard page at NASA — she has now logged 48 flawless solo “hops” — wildly-exceeding the designed-for hope — of at least three no-fault flights. Though a demonstration project, this tech may also prove to be useful (with scaled up lifting power, and a cargo hold and robotic arm) to retrieve core samples and ferry the same dozens of miles, on multiple hops, back to a future return launch platform. We shall see — but here is the latest, from Space.com:

…NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter made its 48th off-Earth flight on Tuesday (March 21).

Ingenuity buzzed over the Martian landscape at a maximum altitude of around 39 feet (12 meters), observing potential science targets that could be studied by its robotic partner, NASA’s life-hunting Perseverance rover.

Ingenuity traveled at a top speed of 10.4 mph (16.7 kph) during Tuesday’s flight, which covered a horizontal distance of around 1,300 feet (400 meters) and lasted nearly 150 seconds, according to the mission’s flight log….

Now you know. Onward… with a lil’ girls sweet sleepover tonight, but a home-going celebration before that — on a slushy gray day, here. Smiling just the same….

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