English: Mars - Ingenuity Helicopter - Flight Zone Activities - March 23, 2021

PIA24496: Ingenuity's Test Flight Activities (Illustration)

https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA24496

This graphic shows the general activities the team behind NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter hopes to accomplish on a given test flight on the Red Planet. The helicopter will have 31 Earth days (30 sols, or Martian days) for its test flight program.

The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter technology demonstration activity is supported by NASA's Science Mission Directorate, the NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, and the NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the helicopter technology demonstration for NASA.