After Three Years on Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends
After Three Years on Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends
NASA has proven powered, controlled flight is possible on other worlds, just as the Wright brothers proved it was possible on Earth.
Flying on Mars is a lot harder than flying on Earth. If you don't believe me, listen to this developer of the flight sim X-Plane. The fact that they were able to get it to work at all is astounding.
So, we should fly on Jupiter instead, right?
Next flight is scheduled for Titan, which is a lot easier. The gravity is lower, but there's a lot more atmosphere, which means our helicopter can be nuclear powered!
Is that even possible? I mean… with how volatile and exotic the atmosphere is, wouldn’t what a craft would be doing be more akin to how a submarine travels under water? Would “flying” even be the correct term? Wouldn’t it be more like navigating violent torrents of differently-dense gaseous layers? Some of which are (sometimes) liquid?
What would one even call that?
That was really interest.
You could hear the excitement in their post!
I think Veritasium has a video about this as well
Interesting. I was wondering how it would work at all with such a thin atmosphere. The author could chill out a bit though.
Yeah, but they launched it just last year, right?
Cries in old
2020 was only last year right? … right?!?
Somewhere in Hollywood, a studio exec is already pitching a sequel to The Martian, with the plot that Matt Daemon finds himself stranded on Mars again and needs to fix the helicopter to fly him back to Earth.
I would pay money to see that in theaters
Sad. Hopefully a little helicopter like this becomes standard equipment on missions.
I can’t read this sentence without hearing Trump. Sad.
NOOOOOOOOOOOO :(
Sadge
But it was so real 😥