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Re:After six months on Mars, NASA's tiny copter is still fly... by neals on Monday September 06, 2021 @06:16AM (#28432197)
Do we have any amazing pictures from it?
Re:After six months on Mars, NASA's tiny copter is still fly... by jffry on Monday September 06, 2021 @08:37AM (#28433079)
Depends on your threshold for amazing. It's a lot of pictures of rocks since they're cameras for navigation. On the other hand they're aerial views of another planet taken by a helicopter during autonomous flight.

One notable photo was on Ingenuity's third flight, where it happened to get the Perseverance rover and landing area together in one frame: https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/25862/ingenuity-spots-persev...

There is also the NASA blog just covering Ingenuity, which has some more notable photos along with explanations: https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/

Re:After six months on Mars, NASA's tiny copter is still fly... by stohk on Monday September 06, 2021 @07:33AM (#28432680)
Ingenuity only has one downward facing color camera and b/w nav cam. None of them are particularly amazing but its just a tech demo. You can see all the images here, https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/
Re:After six months on Mars, NASA's tiny copter is still fly... by nisegami on Monday September 06, 2021 @08:10AM (#28432907)
Seeing color pictures from another planet's surface is one of the things that always fills me with awe.
Re:After six months on Mars, NASA's tiny copter is still fly... by MayeulC on Monday September 06, 2021 @11:00AM (#28434326)
Someone has used the low-FPS, downwards-pointing color camera plus photogrammetry to reconstruct the flight environment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX89Y766D_M
Re:After six months on Mars, NASA's tiny copter is still fly... by amelius on Monday September 06, 2021 @07:15AM (#28432572)
Half of the pictures on the NASA website are rendered mockups. I don't know which ones are real anymore.
Re:After six months on Mars, NASA's tiny copter is still fly... by tokai on Monday September 06, 2021 @07:32AM (#28432678)
They always write in the image description if it is an illustration or not.

Or use the raw image library https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/

Re:After six months on Mars, NASA's tiny copter is still fly... by ilkkao on Monday September 06, 2021 @08:46AM (#28433137)
It could hover near the rover and take nice photos. But I'm sure NASA doesn't want to take a collision risk like that.