This is CBS. I am the world, Bob Zimmerman. He keeps a website behind the black. It's holiday, fundraising time for behind the black.

And Bob is here. Your subscriptions, your donations are hardly welcome because we're going to the planet Mars.

Not only to the planet Mars, but it's a great treat to introduce once again that champion of the Martian atmosphere in Genuity, number 64.

Anything significant, Bob? Speed record, altitude record? No, no record at all here, John. It just was a standard flight as I said behind the black.

In a pattern, it's almost beginning to almost be routine. They flew on October 27th, about 1,300 feet.

And the helicopter basically positioned itself in the valley, in the right of our valley, that is the gap in the rim of G-Zero Crater.

Essentially, it's beginning to do the scouting work for Perseverance. When Perseverance moves into this valley to leave the crater and go into the regions beyond to the west of G-Zero Crater.

And that's what's significant, and it's just doing scouting work. And for example, just before it landed, it took a color oblique picture of the terrain of the Red Vivalus.

And I posted that as well, so you can see the ground of this, what looks like a former stream bed, dry.

And you can see the ground that the rover will be going on. It's not particularly difficult.

That's the colors that were provided by the picture. I increased the contrast slightly. I didn't change the colors.

I don't know if that's a natural color or not. I really don't. That's the colors that the color camera on ingenuity produces routinely.

What about the blue skies? Yeah, I don't know. That's the colors it produces. I mean, that's my understanding.

On every other image of the scene, the sky of Mars has a pink glow. So I have a feeling that's just the circumstances of the camera. I don't get it.

Unless it's in less ingenuities in San Diego, that would make it. I'm not going to that job.

A global map of the near surface ice on Mars. You will remember the last time, Bob,

explicated what is looking to be the starship landing zone on Mars, because there was a lot of surface ice.

Now, do they know where all of it is, Bob?

This map is essentially taking global, the global orbital data from many different spacecraft,

combined with some of the ground data that we have, though most of that's in the dry equatorial regions.

But so the orbital data basically tells us where it appears there is ice on the surface or near surface of Mars.

And so they've mapped it. They decided to produce a decaled map. So we know what areas to look for.

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