NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter will make history's first attempt at powered flight on another planet. It was riding with the agency's Mars 2020 Perseverance, with Ingenuity attached to its belly, landed on Mars February 18, 2021.
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Even Mars has a flying drone...NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter will make history's first attempt at powered flight on another planet. It was riding with the agency's Mars 2020 Perseverance, with Ingenuity attached to its belly, landed on Mars February 18, 2021.
Sidd "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." ..... Ferris Bueller
Re: Even Mars has a flying drone...I hope they remembered to register it with the FAA!
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Re: Even Mars has a flying drone...Excited to see the video from it!
Re: Even Mars has a flying drone...Consider the following: no helicopter has ever flown higher than around 40,000 feet on our planet. But on Mars the air is just one percent the density of Earth’s—so thin that flying there is the equivalent of trying to take off at 100,000 feet.
To generate enough lift, the JPL had to redesign traditional rotorcraft down to the very shape and material of the rotor blades, while also dramatically cranking up how fast those blades spin. The final product sports two stacked rotors featuring blades roughly four feet in diameter that spin in opposite directions at 2,400 revolutions per minute. Lets hope that it is registered. I think it might even be nuclear powered. Can't wait to see footage too Sidd "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." ..... Ferris Bueller
Re: Even Mars has a flying drone...Someone must have videos of that thing flying here on earth as they must have tested it. Maybe on youtube?
Re: Even Mars has a flying drone...They had to test in a giant vacuum chamber.
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Re: Even Mars has a flying drone...Thank you Chris
Re: Even Mars has a flying drone...[conspiracy theory warning on]
Giant vacuum chamber? Piffle! They flew the prototype to Mars and recorded it there before returning the video to Earth on the starship Enterprise. [/conspiracy theory warning off] AMD Ryzen 3900x 12C/24T, ASUS x570 mobo, Arctic Liquid Freezer ll 280, Win11 64 bit, 64GB RAM, Radeon RX 570 graphics, Samsung 500GB NVMe 980 PRO (C:), Samsung 970 Evo SSD (D:), Dell U2717D Monitor, Synology DS412+ 8TB NAS, Adobe CS6.
Re: Even Mars has a flying drone...John P.L.E.A.S.E...........
Everyone knows the earth is flat and that these so called planets like Mars are really just a smoke and mirrors trick... Sidd "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." ..... Ferris Bueller
Re: Even Mars has a flying drone...Thanks for sharing Sidd. Amazing the technology to fly a drone in Mars' atmosphere.
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Re: Even Mars has a flying drone...
I think one we get some video of the thing flying around I bet it will really put a new perspective on the red planet. Sidd "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." ..... Ferris Bueller
Re: Even Mars has a flying drone...We'll probably have to send someone there to video that drone actually flying around on Mars.
I wonder how well Drone GPS positioning works on Mars.
Re: Even Mars has a flying drone...
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Re: Even Mars has a flying drone...
My guess is that Perseverance will be taking the pictures and for GPS I found this: To solve this problem, the ARL is developing a new GPS navigation system called a Self-Calibrating Pseudolite Array (SCPA). This array consists of several GPS pseudolites and receivers communicating amongst themselves using GPS signals. This allows the pseudolites to determine their own position relative to the each other with centimeter-level accuracy. Once the positions are accurately known, any vehicle can navigate within the array as it would with conventional pseudolites. Sidd "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." ..... Ferris Bueller
Re: Even Mars has a flying drone...Wow, pretty cool engineering feat!
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