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Wathen1955 04-19-2021 11:22pm
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Succeeds in Historic First Flight
 
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/n...c-first-flight

MEANZ06 04-20-2021 12:38am
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Originally Posted by Wathen1955 (Post 1875043)
Kinda anticlimactic no? Where the heck are the Martians?

snide 04-20-2021 5:52am
How much money was spent on that? :bigears:

Giraffe (He/Him) 04-20-2021 6:51am
That's it? That's the entire thing? Where's the flyover of the Mars Golden Gate bridge for example? Or circling the Mars Hoover Dam? Where's the three titted Martian poon with four vaginas? What a gyp.

BayouCountry 04-20-2021 7:01am
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Originally Posted by snide (Post 1875062)
How much money was spent on that? :bigears:
I think it’s classified as infrastructure.

Mike Mercury 04-20-2021 7:15am
cool !

The heli has a piece of the original Wright Flyer on board; and the landing area has been named Wright Field.

dvarapala 04-20-2021 9:27am
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Originally Posted by ThomasTheGiraffe (Post 1875080)
That's it? That's the entire thing?
:rolleyes: Baby Steps.

They will be expanding the mission parameters after their initial testing is complete.

Iron Chef 04-20-2021 1:01pm
That's pretty cool. I wonder what adjustments/calculations they made in order to compensate for the Martian atmosphere.

dvarapala 04-20-2021 4:59pm
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Originally Posted by Iron Chef (Post 1875249)
That's pretty cool. I wonder what adjustments/calculations they made in order to compensate for the Martian atmosphere.
More props - and spin them faster.

markids77 04-20-2021 7:47pm
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Originally Posted by dvarapala (Post 1875370)
More props - and spin them faster.
Rotors. Airplanes have propellers, Helicopters have rotors. Sheesh.


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