[Technology] NASA planning on flying a helicopter on Mars

Tony Towner's Fridge

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• May 12, 2018

• #1

Now this is what I call impressive technology:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/scienc...oration-nasa-to-send-helicopter-to-red-planet


Brilliant stuff


TNBA

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big hilda

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• May 12, 2018

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It’s tiny...but will do the trick

 

AmexRuislip

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Ruislip

• May 12, 2018

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When the helicopter flies over New London at night, the local Martian population will complain about the noise!

 

Pickles

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• May 12, 2018

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It's 4lb in weight.

Not sure how it'll work in the thin atmosphere but I'm no astro physicist!

 

Bevendean Hillbilly

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Nestling in green nowhere

• May 12, 2018

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Misread the OP as "NASA fly helicopter TO Mars"

There's me thinking if it's that easy we've wasted a lot of dough on rockets! Divvy.

 

dazzer6666

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Burgess Hill

• May 12, 2018

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Bevendean Hillbilly said:

Misread the OP as "NASA fly helicopter TO Mars"

There's me thinking if it's that easy we've wasted a lot of dough on rockets! Divvy.

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I misread it as ‘NSC to fly helicopter.......’

 

OzMike

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• May 13, 2018

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I plan to win Lotto as well.

 

Tricky Dicky

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Sunny Shoreham

• May 13, 2018

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Pickles said:

It's 4lb in weight.

Not sure how it'll work in the thin atmosphere but I'm no astro physicist!

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Oh, come on, it's not Rocket Sci...... oops.

 

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Shropshire Seagull

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Telford

• May 13, 2018

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So, more of a drone and a helicopter.
Will have to be fully autonomous as the radio signal delay between Earth and Mars will mean it's crashed before the Earth-based pilot knew it was even airborne.

Oooh, can I say "airborne" if there is no air?

 

looney

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• May 13, 2018

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Pickles said:

It's 4lb in weight.

Not sure how it'll work in the thin atmosphere but I'm no astro physicist!

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Less Gravity will help, could be easier.

 

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Hendrax

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Worthing

• May 13, 2018

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I think you'll find that the earth is flat and space travel is a hoax.

 

Triggaaar

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Goldstone

• May 13, 2018

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Hendrax said:

I think you'll find that the earth is flat and space travel is a hoax.

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Yes, but if you don't go along with it, they come round at night and give you a frontal lobotomy.