The flight was completed at 10:35am. That indicates the helicopter has a very good reserve of energy at such an early time of the day. The image was processed by James Sorenson. The helicopter’s estimated landing location is about 25 meters northwest of airfield Tau, but we’re still waiting for the official details from JPL, but we have received 10 NavCam images of the landing and other RTE’s so communications with the rover appears to be very good. We also don’t know yet if they achieved the new flight speed record they were planning on attempting. Watch this space for more data as it comes down.
For those that enjoy the image sets from the helicopter the mission server has just reached 10,000 Heli NavCams images and 471 Heli RTE images. Quite a feat for this little technology demonstrator :)