I have plotted (rather roughly) the outlines of the oblique color press release view and the first frame of the video on the last map, and it's clear that my flight 6 path needs to be moved north, which will remove the need for the last little bend in the path. I will post a new version shortly.

Phil

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Very shortly! Here it is.

Phil

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I noticed that on the heli nav images at the vertical landing portion of flight 5, it is possible to draw close to radial lines through ground features, after contrast enhancement, which allow triangulation of the shadow and therefore of the landing location. As the projection from the fisheye lens appears to be centered on the image, the radial lines should appear straight on a map. I could then use my earlier map to get a handle on the position of Ingenuity after flight 5:

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There is still some wiggle room but the location should be better than my earlier estimate (yellow). I will update the map.

Sol 99 - we just had a short drive to another rock.

Phil

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Great forensic work!

Yes, good work. I'm moving my flight 5 destination to comply with it. Here's an updated version of the map as it is at present. I'm still trying to decide if the Rice U. map Andreas linked to should be used for flight 6.

Phil

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Update to sol 102, with flight 6 from the new JPL map.

Phil

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Update to include the sol 103 drive and the location of the next helicopter landing site, which I am assuming will be called Field D.

Phil

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The geojson for the helicopter flight path:

https://mars.nasa.gov/mmgis-maps/M20/Layers...light_path.json

and helicopter waypoints:

https://mars.nasa.gov/mmgis-maps/M20/Layers..._waypoints.json

Here is my take for sol 103 using now the geojson for the helicopter path:

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The width of the flight path is 1.2m which is the wing span of the blades and should be comparable to the size of the shadow in the nav images.

The geojson of the flight path does not have intermediate points, only the end points of the straight segments.

The circle for the destination of flight 7 is 20m in diameter.

And here is a close-up of the potential area for the next rover drive:

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Very nice map! Here is my version updated to sol 104.

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Phil

Here another take for sol 104 using the geojson:

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And a close up looking forward:

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The rover path plots a bit closer to the small but distinct crater the rover just passed than shown on the online map. The Hazcam images and Phil's path are very consistent to what is shown here. Not sure why the online map is a bit different.

A 28m drive on sol 105, penciled in here, based on Hazcam images:

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And my map updated - the new position and route just taken from the JPL map at this stage - but correcting for the offset in the online map.

That offset has persisted since the first map on the website. Either the rover locations and path are slightly off or the base map is slightly off relative to absolute coordinates - I don't know which. But there is a clear misregistration between the path and the base map. It's only about 1.5 or 2 m so not a big concern.

Phil

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The thing is both the original HiRISE map data (geotiff) and the path geojson seem to actually register correctly, with respect to each other, and most likely in terms of latitude and longitude. This leaves perhaps the web mapping software which is leaflet. Leaflet probably assumes coordinates are for the planet Earth which should still be ok for plotting. Perhaps somehow elevation is considered for the path and not the map. Or perhaps tiling the map introduced an offset. Not a big deal but something to be aware of.

Here json based rover path to sol 105:

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My map update to sol 107 with the Ingenuity flight and a short drive.

Phil

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A shortish drive, 20 m or a bit more, on sol 108. I only have Hazcams to go on so far but it looks like we are getting close to the sol 91 helicopter landing site.

Phil

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A large sol 107 map with added overlays of helicopter RTE images carefully registered to the HiRISE map. Perhaps the rover will venture into those areas.

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A sol 109 map focusing on the crater and route to Ingenuity.

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My map for sol 109.

Phil

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The map for sol 110 shows the simulated tracks of the last drive and to the South the area of the path to a potential first excursion into the Seitah.

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Since the base map is the same as is used on the project page, there is not much added value here.

Sol 110, a quick map update.

Phil

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Sol 110 map update

Since there is now a JPL provided sol107 heli location, here an update to the sol110 map, looking ahead to the south, centered on the border of the Seitah region.

The JPL location is the open circle next to the yellow marker. The simulated rover track is to scale.

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The potential excursion into the Seitah region was shown just north of the large crater at the southern margin of the map. It may be a handful drives away.

Sol 113, continuing southwards.

Phil

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My sol 113 map:

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Sol 116, a drive which brings us close to the edge of Seitah, probably to enter a safe path to the south.

Phil

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Here my json based map for sol 116, with an estimate for the destination of flight 8. on or after Monday, 6/21.

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The center of the 20m radius circle is about 160m from the current location of Ingenuity. It covers a smooth looking area which seems to make for a nice air field. There is another, smaller, smooth area about 50m to the west which may be another candidate.

Sol 120 - no rover movement but a nice Ingenuity flight to Airfield E. The location is from the descent image sequence.

Phil

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Here my sol 121 map with Ingenuities new location:

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I have added 1m (dotted) and 5m (solid) contours since the border to the Seitah has more topographic expression. The contours also show how horizontal layers may be exposed at the bottom of the larger crater just south of Ingenuity.

The sol 122 map after the geojson update, with a larger view of the Seitah:

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Sol 122 map update. Looks like this could lead in to an interesting examination of the bright rocks in Seitah.

Phil

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Moving south again, no stop at Seitah.

Phil

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sol 123 update with geojson path and black contours on brighter imagery:

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Sol 124, a short drive.

Phil

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My sol 124 update:

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Sol 126, a drive to the south, maybe within view of Ingenuity for a close-up image.

Phil

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Sol 127, continuing south. There doesn't seem much point going further south here because of rough terrain ahead, so we will probably turn east and drive through Airfield E, and then south again.

Phil

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Thanks, very helpful. I am away from my setup so no updates from my side for a while. Using the great Marslife.org, one can plan a path to the eastern depression where Ingenuity is located, but I think also to the west towards and perhaps down for a careful dip into the Seitah.

A short drive north on sol 128.

Phil

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And to finish this page of maps, a convoluted drive on sol 129. Remember my maps are made to fit pages in a book, so I will not be extending this one, I will be moving to a new one.

Phil

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The long drive on sol 130 goes around that old crater. I mapped the path from the available images and left it dashed where I can't see it. I can fill that in from the JPL map later.

EDIT: we will also have passed the 1000 m mark on this drive.

Phil

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Only a partial panorama so far but I think I have a good location for sol 131. I added the next airfield location at the bottom of the map.

Phil

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That took a bit of figuring out! This map shows the 9th flight of Ingenuity and the new airfield location. I'm assuming a straight flight path.

Phil

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Sol 134, about 90 m drive to the south, making pretty good progress through rough terrain.

Phil

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Sol 135 map - the dashed part of the line gets filled in when I have the JPL map.

Phil

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A shorter drive on sol 136, 34 m south.

Phil

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Sol 137, continuing south around Seitah - and not too far from its southern end (in this region - it extends further south if you go further west).

Phil

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My take on the current Perseverance and Ingenuity maps:

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I may try and register the heli color camera views as maps.