English: This animation of the take-off phase of Ingenuity’ flight 11 is compiled from 15 frames acquired by the navigation camera (NAV) from 12:33:56 through 12:34:05 local mean solar time on August 5, 2021 (sol 163 of the Perseverance rover mission).

Brightness and contrast of frames are adjusted; size is cropped from 640×480 to 400×300 to reduce the animation size Each frame in this slow-motion display lasts 2.1 sec instead of actual 0.7 sec calculated from timestamps.

The NAV camera is mounted in the helicopter’s fuselage and points directly downward to track the ground during flight.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech