About To Invade Mars Again

[highland145]

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[zinfamous]

Sharon Stone doesn’t like this

Kate Beckinsale! (yes...that's the far worse version, and horribly stupid and pointless...but Kate Beckinsale at least is the better version.)

 

[Scarpozzi]

Sharon Stone doesn’t like this

I'm hoping the rover discovers some real 3 breasted aliens. Not sure if you've seen how they did it for Total Recall or not, but it was a challenge for them to create what probably exists on the red planet...

 

[SKORPI0]

There's now a helicopter on Mars

NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars along with the Ingenuity helicopter, which is set to make the first test flight on another planet.

www.inverse.com

 

[olds]

There's now a helicopter on Mars

NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars along with the Ingenuity helicopter, which is set to make the first test flight on another planet.

www.inverse.com

The team behind Ingenuity are not yet sure whether it is even possible for a helicopter to hover above the Martian surface. Mars' atmosphere is less than one percent the density of Earth’s, so it may be too thin for the helicopter to successfully fly.

They couldn't replicate that here? Why would they even send it if they didn't know the answer?

 

[IronWing]

The team behind Ingenuity are not yet sure whether it is even possible for a helicopter to hover above the Martian surface. Mars' atmosphere is less than one percent the density of Earth’s, so it may be too thin for the helicopter to successfully fly.

They couldn't replicate that here? Why would they even send it if they didn't know the answer?

Helicopters can't really fly on earth either.

 

[BoomerD]

The team behind Ingenuity are not yet sure whether it is even possible for a helicopter to hover above the Martian surface. Mars' atmosphere is less than one percent the density of Earth’s, so it may be too thin for the helicopter to successfully fly.

They couldn't replicate that here? Why would they even send it if they didn't know the answer?

How could they replicate the various conditions...the difference in gravity, atmospheric density, temperature, Matt Damon trying to shoot it down...

 

[Spacehead]

I guess it's just a proof-of-concept. Still pretty cool though.

The Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, is a technology demonstration to test powered flight on another world for the first time. It is hitching a ride on the Perseverance rover. A series of flight tests will be performed over a 30-Martian-day experimental window that will begin sometime in the spring of 2021. For the very first flight, the helicopter will take off a few feet from the ground, hover in the air for about 20 to 30 seconds, and land. That will be a major milestone: the very first powered flight in the extremely thin atmosphere of Mars! After that, the team will attempt additional experimental flights of incrementally farther distance and greater altitude. After the helicopter completes its technology demonstration, Perseverance will continue its scientific mission.

https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/

 

[olds]

How could they replicate the various conditions...the difference in gravity, atmospheric density, temperature, Matt Damon trying to shoot it down...

It's 19" tall. Fly it in a vacuum chamber in a vomit comet. Or something similar.

 

[olds]

The other thing that is cool, it that Percy is supposed to take (coring?) samples that will be brought back to Earth. Now, that's something.

 

[olds]

https://imgur.com/a/oy40Kx3

 

[sdifox]

The other thing that is cool, it that Percy is supposed to take (coring?) samples that will be brought back to Earth. Now, that's something.

That is happening with followup missions, don't know the details.

 

[KMFJD]

kinda neat

 

[zinfamous]

kinda neat

Is that a camera from one of those google streets cars?

man, how cool would that be, to start loading up a map of Mars as that thing rolls around. We can walk around like on Google Street View.

 

[brianmanahan]

Is that a camera from one of those google streets cars?

they have nice cameras like that now for 3 or 400$

i've been thinking about buying one just to mess around with for a while

 

[Spacehead]

Ingenuity: First Flight over Mars (video)

Doesn't look like much buy that's pretty cool & congrats to the people that made it happen

 

[BoomerD]

Ingenuity: First Flight over Mars (video)

Doesn't look like much buy that's pretty cool & congrats to the people that made it happen

How are they going to protect that thing during storms? Seems like the winds would just blow it away.

 

[pmv]

.. probably an out-of-place observation, but how exactly would you attack a planet?

Just hurl a big-enough rock at it at high enough relative velocity.

 

[Greenman]

It's 19" tall. Fly it in a vacuum chamber in a vomit comet. Or something similar.

They tested it in a vacuum chamber with a pully at the top and a weighted string attached to the little chopper.
There is a video on youtube showing the development.

 

[repoman0]

How are they going to protect that thing during storms? Seems like the winds would just blow it away.

With 1% of the atmospheric density of earth, I wouldn’t expect even very fast winds to have a whole lot of force behind them

 

[Greenman]

With 1% of the atmospheric density of earth, I wouldn’t expect even very fast winds to have a whole lot of force behind them

Seems like you'd be hard pressed to tell if you were standing in a tornado.

 

[repoman0]

Seems like you'd be hard pressed to tell if you were standing in a tornado.

I was doing some reading about it ... apparently winds need to be 35+ mph to even kick up dust, and they don’t really get much faster than 60. There are planet wide dust storms roughly one in three years though that block most surface sunlight for weeks or months, but apparently don’t feel like a violent storm ... just that all of a sudden the air is dusty.

 

[BoomerD]

Nonsense...fake news.

I saw the historical documentary...

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=video&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjD07D41Y_wAhWMsJ4KHV9-CcAQtwIwAnoECAkQAw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dq8ri1Gu_XVc&usg=AOvVaw05qlQVE-Wtws6v-0WazJ9A