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About 600m per flight. Actually it's flight time is limited by motor heat buildup, not battery capacity.

If they want to scout each landing site, that requires doing a round-trip one day to get photos and flying out the next day, which limits it to a maximum range of 300m every two days.

The previous rover, Curiosity has driven an average of 8m per day (usually stopping for a few days to to science then driving in bursts of ~30m/day) Ingenuity should be able to keep up.




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