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Off-world observation
Jezero Crater, Mars
ICAO assigns no location codes beginning with J, with one exception. In 2021 it gave JZRO to the airfield in Jezero Crater, where NASA's Ingenuity helicopter made the first powered, controlled flight on another planet. Station XSTR does not report from there. It only looks.
Observations
- Temperature
- −63 °C
- Pressure
- 7 hPa, under 1% of Earth's
- Wind
- 10 kt W, felt as 1
- Sol
- 2038
- Light time
- 11 min from Earth
- Distance
- 198 million km
- Sunset
- Blue
NOTAM
!JZRO 01/072 JZRO HEL IGY U/S AFT FLT 72 DUE ROTOR BLADE DAMAGE. PERM
Notice to air missions: the helicopter Ingenuity, aircraft type IGY, has been out of service since its 72nd flight in January 2024, with a damaged rotor blade. It was built to fly five times.
Station notes
The report above is representative, not live: typical Jezero readings, stamped with this station's issue time. The crater runs from about minus 80 °C before dawn to about minus 20 °C in the afternoon, at a pressure near 7 hPa. There is always dust in the air, and it scatters blue light toward the setting sun, so sunsets on Mars are blue.
The sol is the day count of NASA's Perseverance mission, from its landing in the crater on 18 February 2021. A sol runs 24 hours 39 minutes. The light time and distance come from both planets' average orbits, which is close enough for a briefing.