Mars Helicopter Is Deployed!

AProudLefty

Black Kitty Ain't Happy
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And it took it's first snap!!!

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Dimensions
Fuselage (body): 13.6 cm × 19.5 cm × 16.3 cm (5.4 in × 7.7 in × 6.4 in)[1]
Landing legs: 0.384 m (1 ft 3.1 in)[1]
Diameter Rotors: 1.2 m (4 ft)[1][2][3]
Height 0.49 m (1 ft 7 in)[1]
Landing mass
Total: 1.8 kg (4.0 lb)[1][3]
Batteries: 273 g (9.6 oz)
Power 350 watts[1][4]
 
Science rocks!

Amazing that they can control this from 168 million miles away, and I keep repeatedly flying my little toy drone into the windows. :laugh:

I cannot even make a decent paper airplane!

Ingenuity is probably a warm up act for the Big Kahuna: NASA's Dragonfly mission proposes to drop a helicopter drone on Saturn's moon Titan.

 
I think Ingenuity is getting lonely. I encourage everyone to keep in communication with it. It can get lonely and cold on Mars.

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