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65dBnoise<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@PaulHammond51" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>PaulHammond51</span></a></span> <br>Yes, helicopters are by nature avid leaf-blowers 🙃. The team already had <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ingenuity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ingenuity</span></a>, but they hadn't thought, it seems, to use it for that purpose on identified targets. Maybe improving its 'landing gear' could make it easier to operate?</p><p>Helicopter sidekicks are very useful indeed. The larger <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MarsChopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarsChopper</span></a> could certainly clear a wider path, and also provide detailed imagery of the ground below.</p><p>But for the time being, that's just reality going back to being <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciFi</span></a> 🫤</p>
65dBnoise<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ruthpozuelo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ruthpozuelo</span></a></span> <br>Unfortunately, the new <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MarsChopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarsChopper</span></a> Science Helicopters already prototyped by JPL won't be flying on Mars any time soon.</p><p>But why be sad? We have capsized private craft on the Moon, and a promise to colonize Mars by 2029 to dream on. Ain't that something?</p>
65dBnoise<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@PaulHammond51" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>PaulHammond51</span></a></span> <br>Thanks for sharing.</p><p>If, instead of trying to compact 10+ years of history he had expanded the last 3 ½ minutes to fit the whole 30 min video, it'd have been much more informative, IMO.</p><p>Those 3½ min of news:</p><p>Teddy Tzanetos has been working on the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MarsChopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarsChopper</span></a>, featuring 6 rotors instead of 1, a radio that can talk directly to satellites, 5 kg of payload, 3 km/sol range, AND, comes with its own Mid Air Delivering Platform (MADP ?). There is even a ⅕ scale model of Chopper.</p>
Daniel Pomarède<p>a NASA concept for a proposed follow-on to the agency's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter called Mars Chopper<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz4GaAE7OMQ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=uz4GaAE7OMQ</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mars</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MarsChopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarsChopper</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>space</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a></p>
Bill Minarik<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>65dBnoise</span></a></span> More ideas about the design of <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MarsChopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarsChopper</span></a> from Teddy Tzanetos in the second half of this video from <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/JPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JPL</span></a> in April 2023.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsUtq8PwZpQ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=xsUtq8PwZp</span><span class="invisible">Q</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AGU24" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AGU24</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Mars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mars</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Ingenuity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ingenuity</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MarsSampleReturn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarsSampleReturn</span></a></p>
65dBnoise<p>The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MarsChopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarsChopper</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz4GaAE7OMQ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=uz4GaAE7OMQ</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mars</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NASA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Solarocks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Solarocks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Space</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MarsHelicopter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarsHelicopter</span></a></p>
65dBnoise<p>During a Wednesday, Dec. 11, briefing at the American Geophysical Union’s annual meeting in Washington, Tzanetos (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ingenuity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ingenuity</span></a>'s PM) shared details on the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MarsChopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarsChopper</span></a> rotorcraft […]. </p><p>As designed, Chopper is approximately 20 times heavier than Ingenuity, could fly several pounds of science equipment, and autonomously explore remote Martian locations while traveling up to 2 miles (3 kilometers) in a day. (Ingenuity’s longest flight was 2,310 feet, or 704 meters.)</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p45y3ea9vHY" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=p45y3ea9vHY</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
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