Best news I've heard all week. Welcome back, little helicopter!

@riparianlife97701

11 ай бұрын

Yay! Let's fly some more!

@JAYTEAM187

11 ай бұрын

You need air to fly a helicopter. 😂😂😂😂😂

@AlbertaGeek

11 ай бұрын

@@JAYTEAM187 Yes, and Mars has an atmosphere. What don't you understand?

@riparianlife97701

11 ай бұрын

@@JAYTEAM187 Mars has an atmosphere.

Ingenuity has certainly been an engineering triumph and one of the great successes of space exploration, regardless of what happens from now on. Of course problems should be expected for such an ambitious mission like this but engineers have dealt with them very well indeed. No one could ever have imagined when Perserverance landed that Ingenuity would still be working and conducting flights more than 2 years later. The warranty was for a mere 30 days!

The little chopper that could ❤

Amazing capability for such a small helicopter.

@JAYTEAM187

11 ай бұрын

Yea because it's horse shit. You can't fly a helicopter if there is no air. You need air for thrust, wake up.

Happy news! I hope the little guy keeps flying for years.

I don't feel like Ingenuity gets near enough press coverage or credit for being one of the most Incredibly important feats in human history. Hopefully future generations will see it for what it is, because the general public or a least people I know "just don't get it"

That's some damn fine engineering. Well done, you little twirly-bird!

Welcome back, little one. You are a vital help to. Perseverence.

Excellent update! You always have the best video and graphics to go with your commentaries. 👍

When you remember iginuity to last at best 3 flights, surely this must be the best value for money craft NASA has built, beating even spirit, opportunity and perseverance

So cool. Thanks for the update.

It is remarkable how you keep videos exactly 8 minutes

Happy to have you back, Inge! Plucky little robot. How about we teach it to play "Peek-a-Boo"? A Peek-a-Boo Patch as it were - where, after excess radio silence, Inge flies straight up 10m to see if signal can be re-acquired. That should get above many signal shadow areas and re-establish comms and enable new programming to be downloaded. Maybe. I don't know, I'm not a rocket sciemtist.

Thanks man. I really appreciate you...😎

Great video. Thank you 😊

In the event of terrain caused radio black out, is it a good or bad idea to, initiate a short flight straight up and possibly get new commands if there has been no communication within a week or is it better to wait until the rover gets back in radio communications.

@rimckd825

11 ай бұрын

A really excellent ? IMO...

@kreynolds1123

11 ай бұрын

@@rimckd825 thank you. I was hopping for some thoughts or debate on this either way. My thoughts were that if no radio communications within a week, it may be that there is a change in mission and that it may be desirable to reestablish communication periodically to get mission updates if there are any.

@genessab

10 ай бұрын

There are some definite risks to that approach. Ingenuity does not have enough checks to make sure a dust storm isn’t happening, so attempting to fly straight up during a dust storm would take it out. You also need to realize that the main mission of ingenuity was only about 30 days long. All maneuvers involving ingenuity had no risk of losing sight lines to perseverance, and the only reason this happened was because the scientists are testing the bounds of what ingenuity can do, because her main mission is already over.

What a great idea to put a helicopter scout out there!

What frequencies do they use to communicate

Great video...👍

Are there any plans for balloons on Mars as they could most likely stay up longer and provide some level of communication or other useful mapping operations.

@kreynolds1123

11 ай бұрын

Doable But challenging. Thin atmosphere requires very big ballon for even small payloads and high wind speeds might make altitude control dificult.

@76rjackson

11 ай бұрын

Mars' atmosphere is right about at the limit for balloon flight. It's very rarefied. On the other hand, balloons might be better that a helicopter on Titan.

@kreynolds1123

11 ай бұрын

@@76rjackson yeah solar power for a helicopter is virtually out of the question at titans's distance. And landing in methan/Ethan hydrocarbon seas and lakes make landing a serous problem.

@76rjackson

11 ай бұрын

@@kreynolds1123 Yet they are sending a helicopter anyway.

@jon2026

11 ай бұрын

I am no science expert, but I would think the thin atmosphere and temperature fluctuations would make balloons very hard to control.

Keep on truckin little chopper buddy! 🍺🙂

Whenever I hear about dust problems blocking solar panels on Mars/moon rovers (or on Ingenuity) I wonder if some sort of blowing mechanism should be built into the panels to blow them clean. Dust blocking has been a well recognized problem for a long time?

@RS-ls7mm

11 ай бұрын

No homeless problem on Mars yet, otherwise they would pop out and try to wash the panels. Maybe the Martians know the rovers have no change.

@unflexian

11 ай бұрын

​@@RS-ls7mmit's a home problem not a homeless problem

Mars needs Starlink 🛰🛰🛰

I saw Mimi at 3:10 !!

Welcome back

New flight speed record. 6. meters/second = 2.24 miles/hour.

Solid commentary

The Martians repaired it.

good news!

Makes booster landing look like a parlor trick.

@AtomicExtremophile

11 ай бұрын

A parlor trick anyone can do...

Why didnt the land it on the ridge....?!

what i don't get, is why they won't make a mechanism that wipes the solar panels? you could have small wiper like on cars, only it would cover entire panel. or you could have thin films on it, like the ones used in Formula 1, where they pull the film off to clear the view. it would be limited, but i think 50 of those would do, even 100 would be fine, since its super thin layer and won't cause any loss in light, maybe 1% or less if you have like 100 layers of it, but i doubt it would be even as high as 1%. then have a small arm with suction cup that pulls the layers off if panels get too dusty, but i think better method would be to have a wiper, altho it could get smudgy like car's windscreen if you dont put water on it. another solution would be to have small electric duster with a very tiny compressor, it takes very small amount of power, but slowly compresses air (similar to an air rifle that can be pumped up to build up pressure), so it builds up pressure and then releases it. basically same as compressed air can or electric duster, but self-sustained so it can work as many times as needed. it would easily blow the dust off the panels in just couple of seconds. this way they wouldn't have to wait until dust clears off the panels or worry about dust blocking the panels in the first place .. i can't believe NASA has not thought about it. . it's absurd. i could design it much better.

@joeshmoe4207

10 ай бұрын

Obviously they have thought about it. The fact they haven’t added such a system is pretty obvious given the crafts expected lifespan.

@Darsh0606

8 ай бұрын

Then go design one yourself, the wipers would be very heavy and would require much power that are needed for ingenuity’s heaters. There is also a possibility it would stop working and won’t be able to wipe

Can't a simple brush at a place ensure that Ingenuity is kept free from dust on top? Or a blower?

@pauls5745

11 ай бұрын

I think they'll have to use something like that on future projects. Like maybe a soft brush stroke across the solar panel every other day. Dust preventing recharging will be the inevitable end to the rover and copter. Also thinking maybe at night and dust storms it can cover itself.

Quick question: How do they keep the solar panels free from dust?

@eleventy-seven

10 ай бұрын

Maybe use it or lose it. It does create aerodynamic forces that might clean.

Don't sound the "t" in "often".

🤔 what percentage (%) of this episode is NOT a third-party digital video ?

Nothing of the Cydonia area and the complex surrounding the face. Why not NASA ?

Tell AMEE to pick up the copter and get moving.

Who could realistically believe that a toy like this could send intelligible signals to us at that distance? This whole story is so ridiculous. Maybe OK as science fiction for children, but not for educated adults.

Use that copter to clean the solar panels on the rover

@craigcorson3036

11 ай бұрын

This rover has no solar panels. It is nuclear powered.

Is that an insect on the camera lens of the rover at 2:22 to 2:24?

@craigcorson3036

11 ай бұрын

No.

Yupeeeee 🤓🤓🤓🤓🙏🙏🙏

Need to send a bunker buster then. Look for samples lol Recreational samples lol

YaaaaHoooo!!!!! Git along lil' dougie; it's our good fortune and some a' yer own.

That Helicopter is ssoooo cute😂

I just bought my kid a quadcopter for $250 bucks that can find it's own way home when it loses contact with the base station.

@Darsh0606

8 ай бұрын

Except this one is hundreds of millions of miles away on another planet

Transfer 10% of the military budget to space exploration and I'll be happy to pay my taxes.

@melvinahenakew9369

10 ай бұрын

Death and taxes?

❤ amazing from Pakistan

It just needed some time out. A bit of "me" time away from Percy. We all need a break from our partner now and again.

Get to the choppah!

I guess the flights are automated

@craigcorson3036

11 ай бұрын

Well, there's no pilot on board, soooo, yeah.

Woop de dooo

Mars drones ... the future is here ...

It hasn’t been in the news so did you get this information.

Next time put a radio antenna cable on a balloon and reel to gain some range on the signal as needed.

@eveningstarnm3107

11 ай бұрын

That might be made to work, although it would add a lot of weight to the rover, and weight is expensive for space travel. Also, it's a simple enough idea that other people have probably thought of it for use in similar situations, but I don't see anyone doing it. Good try, though.

What a waste of money that could be better spent. What is the actual point of it all?🤔

Why not use that info to the next mission. Use parachute and...AND helikopter wings to reduce speed when you land the next mars mission..

did a tech guy go out with a dust pan and brush like last time and dust it off ?

hmm, it may have a lot of interesting geological features, but it is nothing to the Cydonia and the complex surrounding the face... again, we are shown useless locations as the more exciting stuff is avoided for fear of stirring up religious upheaval. maybe just maybe someday they will actually do the things the people funding them actually want.

Lets goo

WOW! You NASA guys (pardon the vernacular, please) are amazing... no one else does what you can and do do... 🤓

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

B.S.

It's all just a movie folks. Want to know the truth about space? Just read Genesis chapter 1.

Lost contact or was investigating something NASA didn't want the public to see.

@jimmorrison2657

11 ай бұрын

lost contact

@tilmerkan3882

11 ай бұрын

This isnt faqqing Hollywood. Its science. On Mars. Thats fantastic enough for me

@demosthenes8631

11 ай бұрын

Not everything is a conspiracy you twit.

Was that cool it happened on Elon Musk's birthday 🎈🎂🎈?

Great Mars, bad place humans and bring on five robots and maybe the mars-copter with solar panel "beneath" the rotors QED 160 I.Q. Thank you intelligent Elon Musk 😊👍

@craigcorson3036

11 ай бұрын

And how do you think such an arrangement would affect the copter's aerodynamics, and the ability of the panels to gather sunlight, super-genius? While I am no aeronautical engineer, I don't think it would work too well. And Musk had NOTHING to do with this mission, which is why it is working so well.

Nice Mauritania desert.

@tompsheridantsheridant7354

11 ай бұрын

**MARS!!**

@craigcorson3036

11 ай бұрын

Get a new hobby. Science denial is getting very very tired.