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Featured on April 10, 2021

The Ingenuity helicopter sits a few feet from the Perseverance rover in Jezero Crater on Mars in this self-portrait snapped April 7 by a camera on the rover's robotic arm. The inset shows a closer view of the small chopper, which is scheduled to make its first flight on April 14. [NASA/JPL/MSSS/ASU]

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Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter in Jezero Crater, Mars

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