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Ingenuity Images of Flight 10

Ingenuity’s Mars Helicopter took the image on the left with its navigation camera and the image on the right with its color camera during its 10th Flight, on July 24, 2021.

August 10, 2021

Ingenuity’s Mars Helicopter took the image on the left with its navigation camera and the image on the right with its color camera during its 10th Flight, on July 24, 2021.

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