This video chronicles the dramatic and poignant events of NASA's Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars. On Sol 988, after a solar conjunction, Perseverance processes the terrain and Ingenuity undertakes its 67th flight. Perseverance captures interesting geological features, while Ingenuity crashes on its 72nd flight, damaging its blades severely. Meanwhile, Perseverance encounters its own challenges with a stuck dust cover on its camera. Despite these setbacks, both continue their missions, with Ingenuity now serving as a stationary data collector. The video touches on the rover's continuous exploration and the eventual goal to retrieve Ingenuity's hard drive containing decades of data.

This video is part of Perseverance's journey on Mars. This video is 36 Months on Mars.

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Credit: NASA/JPLCaltech/MSSS/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ./SSI

RIMFAX Animation Euibin Kim, David Paige, UCLA
AI Interpolated Drive Lior Rubanenko, Emily Cardarelli, Justin Maki, David Paige, UCLA, California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA.
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Music: Epidemic Sound

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