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by mholt 1940 days ago
Are you suuuuure about that?

> Its payload is a high resolution downward-looking camera for navigation, landing, and science surveying of the terrain, and a communication system to relay data to the Perseverance rover.

(From Wikipedia)

Also: https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/25526/bottom-of-ingenuity-ma...

I'm pretty sure the point of the helicopter, other than to test powered flight, is to capture frames.