Here’s an update on the Ingenuity Mars helicopter. On April 8, it completed its 25th flight over the Martian surface, traveling 704 meters in just under three minutes at a maximum speed of 5.5 meters per second, another speed record for the helicopter.

Ingenuity is continuing its operational mission extension, scouting ahead of the Perseverance rover to help mission planners decide which of two possible ways to traverse up to the delta at the mouth of Jezero Crater.

The rover is, for a rover, booking it over the crater’s surface, traveling over 300 meters in one day about 50 sols ago. It has traveled 6.6 kilometers since landing. It can only travel at 60 meters per hour (1/10th mph), a snail’s pace, but thanks to Ingenuity and the relatively flat terrain plus some other factors, it doesn’t have to stop as often and keeps driving day by day.

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Making Tracks to the Delta (NASA)