This is CBSI on the world.

I'm John Batchel.

From the surface of the planet Earth, we're going to the surface of the planet Mars.

With the brave little toaster ingenuity, Bob Zimmerman reporting, Bob ingenuity continues to exceed its design specifications.

Is there any estimate how long it can keep this hop and jump and and spy and land scenario?

Well, I'll tell you, John, perseverance, its boss continues to do its work on the floor of zero crater.

And ingenuity right now is kind of been promoted into an operational mode, even though it was written designed as only an engineering

experiment. They are maintaining it under the actual idea of what these things would be used for,

as a scout for the rover.

And so they have announced that what the 19th flight of ingenuity will be, it's going to be a short flight,

retracing the steps that both the rover and the helicopter took for the first six months of their travels in Jazeera.

It's continuing at retracing.

But they are, they're planning to use it down the road.

They have now announced their goals, and their goals are that they're going to try to continue

to fly ahead of perseverance to scout the terrain

that perseverance will need to travel across as it moves towards that large delta of material

that flowed into Jazeera and was the reason they pick this location.

Now, the question is what route is going to take to that Delta.

The announcement here was not entirely clear.

It kind of suggested that they might take a shortcut.

I suspect that's probably wrong on that.

They're probably going to follow their plan.

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