Ingenuity Flight 4 animation from photogrammetry

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3-dimensional reconstruction of Ingenuity’s fourth flight, using a recently released video from NASA/JPL-Caltech. The black-white surface model was generated with photogrammetry using the mentioned gif from Ingenuity’s NAVCam. Then the extracted camera positions were used to animate the flight path of the helicopter.

You can also see the Perseverance rover at its current position, and an outline of Ingenuity’s flight zone superimposed on the terrain. (White dot in the square marks the takeoff/landing location)

Credits:

Ingenuity NAVCam gif: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Ingenuity 3D model: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Perseverance 3D-model: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Ryan Kinnett

Digital Elevation Model of Jezero Crater: HiRISE: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

Terrain image from Perseverance RDC video: NASA/JPL-Caltech