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I am incredibly excited for this. Can believe how nervous the control engineers must be for this. Not sure what quality of the footage to expect from this.
The headline implies it will be soon, but the article doesn't give any information on when the first flight + footage is planned to happen. Tomorrow, days, weeks?
I am incredibly excited for this. Can believe how nervous the control engineers must be for this. Not sure what quality of the footage to expect from this.
Sadly, this helicopter won't record any footage, it is only meant to test flight control and to proof that the idea will work for future missions. There is a interesting Veritasium episode (youtube) that talks about this (interviewing the actual designer from the JPL). The only footage will be from Perseverance filming the flight.
I really really don’t understand the point of doing Mars when we have a lot of things to do on this Earth.
Relax, we can and should do both. In fact, the various space programs have been immensely useful in terms of the technology we can apply right here at home and we learn stuff about our neighborhood. The more big, bold science and engineering we do the more our species benefits.
The headline implies it will be soon, but the article doesn't give any information on when the first flight + footage is planned to happen. Tomorrow, days, weeks?
Does this also limit the use of parachutes on Mars, or require bigger canopies? I know that Perseverance had a parachute for part of the descent, but not the final landing sequence. IIRC one of the earlier probes was designed to bounce rather than gently floating down.
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Sadly, this helicopter won't record any footage, it is only meant to test flight control and to proof that the idea will work for future missions. There is a interesting Veritasium episode (youtube) that talks about this (interviewing the actual designer from the JPL). The only footage will be from Perseverance filming the flight.
Wow, that’s disappointing. I’m surprised they couldn’t squeeze a basic mobile phone camera module on there just for the sake of it.
I am incredibly excited for this. Can believe how nervous the control engineers must be for this. Not sure what quality of the footage to expect from this.
Sadly, this helicopter won't record any footage, it is only meant to test flight control and to proof that the idea will work for future missions. There is a interesting Veritasium episode (youtube) that talks about this (interviewing the actual designer from the JPL). The only footage will be from Perseverance filming the flight.