Ingenuity Flight 9 animation from photogrammetry

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Animation of Ingenuity’s 9th flight that took it 625m over the dune-covered Séítah area.
The flightpath was reconstructued with photogrammetry and then animated in Blender.

Twitter thread with more information and videos: https://twitter.com/stim3on/status/1419414622973616129

Credits:

• Ingenuity raw images: NASA/JPL-Caltech

• modified Ingenuity 3D model: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß

Terrain images/data:

• Mars 2020 TRN HiRISE DTM Mosaic: NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS

• Mars 2020 TRN HiRISE Orthorectified Image Mosaic: NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS

• Mars 2020 TRN CTX DTM Mosaic: NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS

• Mars 2020 TRN CTX Orthorectified Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS

• Mars MGS MOLA - MEX HRSC Blended DEM Global 200m v2

• CTX mosaic by Justin Cowart, rebalanced and blended by Simeon Schmauß: For CTX: NASA / JPL / MSSS For CRISM: NASA / JPL / JHUAPL For Mars Express: ESA / DLR / FU Berlin