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Approximate locations of Perseverance rover and its sidekick Ingenuity helicopter during Sol 1250 (August 26, 2024). The view is looking due west, and shows the rover climbing up towards the crater rim after completing science activities in Neretva Vallis. The location of the helicopter is shown in final resting place after flight 72.
Image credits: HRSC: ESA/DLR/FU-BERLIN, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO CTX: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS HiRISE: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
I think both of them are still on Mars. /s
Actual question: it's hard to guess the scale of this image, what is the distance between them? How high is the crater rim?
Looks to be about 1300 or so metres: Perseverance map
point-to-point 1419.73 meters (using the coordinates), but a tad further as the rover is climbing the rim now.
The rover is now 101.06 meters higher than the rover and that adds 0.27 meters to the point to point distance which is 1420.0 meters :)
at least 3 feet
The point-to-point distance between the helicopter and the rover at the locations shown on this image is 1419.7 meters (4657.7 feet)
The crater rim rises to a max of 590 meters from the floor of Neretva Vallis that carves through the rim. But the rover has options to cross the rim at a little less than that depending on conditions encountered on the traverse. It's a steep climb with sections around 23% slope angel.