Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                                 2021 May 1
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                         Perseverance from Ingenuity
             Image Credit: [3]NASA, [4]JPL-Caltech, [5]Ingenuity

   Explanation: [6]Flying at an altitude of 5 meters (just over 16 feet),
   on April 25 the Ingenuity helicopter snapped this sharp image. On its
   second flight above the surface of Mars, its color camera was looking
   back toward Ingenuity's current base at Wright Brothers Field and
   Octavia E. Butler Landing marked by the tracks of the Perseverance
   rover at the top of the frame. Perseverance itself looks on from the
   upper left corner about 85 meters away. Tips of Ingenuity's landing
   legs just peek over the left and right edges of the camera's field of
   view. [7]Its record setting fourth flight completed on April 30,
   Ingenuity collected images of a potential new landing zone before
   returning to Wright Brothers Field. Ingenuity's fifth flight would be
   one-way though as the [8]Mars aircraft moves on to the new airfield,
   anticipating a new phase of [9]operational demonstration flights.

                   Tomorrow's picture: clouds of the keel
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    Authors & editors: [21]Robert Nemiroff ([22]MTU) & [23]Jerry Bonnell
                                 ([24]UMCP)
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References

   1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
   2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2105/PIA24625fromIngenuity.jpg
   3. https://www.nasa.gov/
   4. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/
   5. https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/
   6. https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA24625
   7. https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/297/ingenuity-completes-its-fourth-flight/
   8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingenuity_(helicopter)#List_of_flights
   9. https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-to-begin-new-demonstration-phase
  10. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210430.html
  11. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
  12. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html
  13. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html
  14. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search
  15. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html
  16. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss
  17. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html
  18. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html
  19. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=210501
  20. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210502.html
  21. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html
  22. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/
  23. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html
  24. http://www.astro.umd.edu/
  25. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply
  26. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html
  27. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/
  28. https://www.nasa.gov/
  29. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/
  30. http://www.mtu.edu/