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The third flight of the Mars Helicopter, sideways zoom edition


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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flies Faster, Farther on Third Flight | It rose 5 meters – the same altitude as its second flight. Then it zipped downrange 50 meters, almost half the length of a football field, reaching a top speed of 2 meters per second (4.5 mph, 7.2 kph)