Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                                2023 June 24
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                                3D Ingenuity
           Image Credit: [3]NASA, [4]JPL-Caltech, [5]MSSS, [6]ASU

   Explanation: The multicolor, stereo imaging [7]Mastcam-Z on the
   Perseverance rover [8]zoomed in to capture this 3D close-up (get out
   your red/blue glasses) of the [9]Mars Ingenuity helicopter on mission
   sol 45. That's Earth-date 2021 April 5. [10]Casting a shadow on the
   Martian surface, Ingenuity is standing alone on its four landing legs
   next to the rover's wheel tracks. The experimental helicopter's solar
   panel, charging batteries that keep it warm through the [11]cold
   Martian nights and power its flight, sits just above Ingenuity's two
   1.2 meter (4 foot) long counter-rotating blades. [12]Thirteen sols
   later, on April 19, Ingenuity became the first aircraft to perform
   powered, controlled flight on another planet. [13]It has since gone on
   to complete more than 50 flights through the thin atmosphere of Mars.

                    Tomorrow's picture: Jovian lightning
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    Authors & editors: [25]Robert Nemiroff ([26]MTU) & [27]Jerry Bonnell
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References

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   2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2306/PIA24547_fig1.jpg
   3. https://www.nasa.gov/
   4. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/
   5. http://www.msss.com/
   6. https://mastcamz.asu.edu/
   7. https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/instruments/mastcam-z/for-scientists/
   8. https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA24547
   9. https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/
  10. https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/?begin_sol=58&end_sol=58&af=HELI_NAV,HELI_RTE
  11. https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8906/nasas-mars-helicopter-survives-first-cold-martian-night-on-its-own/
  12. https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/videos/?v=535
  13. https://mars.nasa.gov/news/9421/landing-in-living-rooms-lego-models-of-nasa-mars-rover-and-helicopter/
  14. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230623.html
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  17. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html
  18. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search
  19. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html
  20. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss
  21. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html
  22. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html
  23. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=230624
  24. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230625.html
  25. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html
  26. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/
  27. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html
  28. http://www.astro.umd.edu/
  29. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply
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  31. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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  34. http://www.mtu.edu/