Ingenuity Helicopter's Launch Lock is Released

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter can be seen on the belly of the Perseverance rover on March 26, 2021, the 36th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The helicopter's launch lock, which holds it in place on the rover, has been released. This image was taken by the WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgineering) camera on the SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals) instrument, located at the end of the rover's long robotic arm. Animations available at https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA24441

Date

2021-03-30

Photographer / author

NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Collection

JPL

Archive

NASA Image and Video Library

Type

photograph

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