Mars Helicopter Ingenuity successfully performed a slow spin test of its blades on April 8, 2021. This video was made by combining 4 images that were captured by the Mastcam-Z on NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. On April 11, It will do its first flight autonomously.

Perseverance as a communications base station for Ingenuity will receive instructions from Earth and transmit the commands to the helicopter for it to fly. It will take about 6 seconds to climb to 10 feet (3 meters), which is a maximum height for the first flight. And then it will go into a hover for about 30 seconds.

Meanwhile, perseverance will be taking imagery of the flight and it will send the pictures back to earth on April 12.

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Credit: NASA/JPL