[Technology] NASA planning on flying a helicopter on Mars

[Tony Towner's Fridge]

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

TTF

 

[big hilda]

It’s tiny...but will do the trick

 

[AmexRuislip]

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

 

[Pickles]

It's 4lb in weight.

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

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

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]

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.

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

 

[OzMike]

I plan to win Lotto as well.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

It's 4lb in weight.

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

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

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

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]

It's 4lb in weight.

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

Less Gravity will help, could be easier.

 

[Hendrax]

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

 

[Triggaaar]

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

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