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Dissecting 's accident.

This animation shows one of the rotor blades before and after the 's 72nd landing. The fact that the image with the broken blade had to shrink and change perspective so much to match the other one is an indication of the RTE camera being much closer to the ground after landing 72.

Superimposed, transformed RTE images from and .

Originals:
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01008/ids/edr/browse/heli/HSF_1008_0756416571_585ECM_N0690001HELI00000_000085J01.png
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01040/ids/edr/browse/heli/HSF_1040_0759257443_233ECM_N0720001HELI00000_000085J01.png

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