Earlier today, the Perseverance rover captured a high resolution image of the Ingenuity using the SuperCam RMI instrument.
One rotor blade is broken off completely, the others have damaged tips.
More images from the SuperCam mosaic have arrived.
The suspected detached blade can now be clearly identified. It's a bit left of the center of this image behind the sand ripple Ingenuity is sitting on.
It appears that #NASA were ready to announce #Ingenuity's mishap during #Flight72 by Jan 18, the same day the flight took place. Or, a draft of something related to that event or an event during previous #Flight71 leaked to the internet and was scraped by the search engine before it was removed.
NOTE: I'm not a fan of conspiracy theories. This could have a much simpler explanation.
Now, searching #ThanksIngenuity on Bing actually turns up the same result as duckduckgo, including the Jan 18 date! (curiously still not the same preview text as yours. )
But even better, Bing still has the page cached (perhaps the first time Bing was actually useful 😉 )
📷 An image that the helicopter took of the ground after the flight ended shows the shadow of one of the blades, with at least one-quarter of it missing.
It's sad to see the shadow of Ingenuity's rotor blade like this. According to Teddy Tzanetos, the outer 25% of the lower rotor are missing, presumably due to an impact with the ground during landing of Flight 72.