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#Mars: Ingenuity sets a record. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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🗓️ 10 December 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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#Mars: Ingenuity sets a record. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/ingenuity-sets-altitude-record-on-35th-flight/

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0:35.0

I'm John Bachelorette.

0:36.0

We're headed to Mars with Bob Zimmerman who keeps the website behind the black ingenuity.

0:40.0

On Mars the brave little toaster that flies.

0:43.0

Bob is sent a record. What?

0:45.0

They did their 35th flight and it made a new record of 49 feet.

0:50.0

I'm sorry enough for 46 feet altitude record.

0:53.0

There's the highest it's flown and generally it's flown only to 33 feet.

0:57.0

But they have a new source to wear to test and they want to see if they can fly higher.

1:01.0

That's a big deal because the atmosphere of Mars is so thin going higher it gets thinner.

1:05.0

And that can be a difference in just those few feet.

1:08.0

And they need to be able to do this because they want to be able to fly up above the delta

1:12.0

that Perseverance is going to go to so they need to be able to fly higher.

1:16.0

And so they did this first. They went up. They went slightly sideways about 50 feet.

1:19.0

And then came back down again and it worked great. And so this is just once again

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