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So much for first person flying. Given time delay between 3 and 20 minutes depending on position of Earth and Mars (actually longer when they are on opposite sides of the sun, since I guess there will need to be a relay station or stations as we won’t be able to transmit THROUGH the sun), pretty much I guess they will send a prerecorded flight plan, the Ingenuity helicopter will fly the plan, and mess age back whether it worked or not and if the craft is still fly able for another round.For 11 minutes, Perseverance was both dead, and alive. As per Schrödinger's cat
Because it actually landed (or crashed) on Mars 11 minutes before the radio signals of the landing moment were received, and we then "observed" the cat's (rover's) fate.
That's been true of every mission away from Earth, and always will be. And sometimes the time delay from Mars to Earth will be even worse than 11 minutes (The fantastic movie "The Martian" kinda ignored that for sake of not getting bogged down, the book did of course include the delays).
For those wondering "Schrödinger whuuut?, this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrödinger's_cat
and people think “latency” in online video games is bad!