NASA Video: Mars Helicopter "Ingenuity" Flight Test Animations (2021)

NASA's Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will be the first aircraft to fly in a controlled way on another planet. As its own separate mission, the helicopter will hitch a ride to Mars attached to the belly of NASA’s Perseverance rover (part of the Mars 2020 mission). This animation reel simulates how Ingenuity will operate on the surface of Mars.
The Ingenuity helicopter is considered a high-risk, high-reward technology demonstration. If the small craft encounters difficulties, the science-gathering of the Mars 2020 mission won't be impacted. If the helicopter does take flight as designed, future Mars missions could enlist second-generation helicopters to add an aerial dimension to their explorations.

[@jesuschristthelordandsavio3384]

This looks so real. Look at Mars in the backround. Perfect planet in space. Mars looks so nice.

[@ЧинараИдрисова-ш8д]

Да как мультик. При подъеме и посадки вертушки пыль не поднимается. Рекламное предложение посетить Марс.

[@hidayet29]

I'm looking forward to the photos that Perseverance's small helicopter will take. Especially perseverance photographed from afar

[@harryjoseph1802]

Incredible! To witness this is in itself a profound privilege. Science and empirical truth should whittle down superstition and false beliefs. 'Astral Travelling ' is all very well but it's subjective and mankind can't plug into it to share that experience like we're doing with Perseverance and Ingenuity. Kudos to you guys at NASA.

[@ranjithsilva878]

Well done

[@masshultzy6449]

It has been tested vigorously in a simulated Mars atmosphere here on earth. They should know what they are doing, especially if they had the intelligence to get there.

[@elenablanco1372]

Interesantes imajenes de Marte ay estaremos algún día yo ya estoy en Marte gracias por compartir bendiciones

[@johnbremner4154]

It can’t possibly fly unless we have been lied to about the density of the Martian atmosphere, because on Earth small helicopters have blades rotating at, on average, 500 rpm. To get the same lift with 100th the atmospheric density, you’d need to rotate e blades at 50,000 rpm, but we can reduce that by a factor of 3, because Mars has only a third of Earth’s gravity, giving us 16,666 rpm needed. However the Mars helicopter has blades that rotate at only 2400 rpm. That’s 6.94 times less than required. Either that of the Martian atmosphere is about 7 times as thick as we have been led to believe.
Actually, I’ve always wondered how those dust storms can actually work on Mars... the top wind speed of Mars wind has been measured at around 60mph. With only 1% the atmospheric density, to kick up a dust storm would be impossible, because that’s the equivalent of a wind of 0.6 mph on Earth. Practically still air. But here we can multiply that by a factor of 3 because of the lower gravity on Mars, meaning it would be the equivalent of a wind of 1.6mph on Earth. But then, that’s still practically still air. You wouldn’t feel it, and no dust would be thrown up, even if you reduced the particulate size.

[@peteb901]

Yet JPL flew this in a vacuum chamber with a CO2 atmosphere and at Mars pressure (6 mB ?) and the weight offset by 63% to simulate Mars' gravity.

[@johnbremner4154]

@@peteb901 That is what people have been told.

[@peteb901]

@@johnbremner4154 No, there is video of it.

[@johnbremner4154]

@@peteb901 Yep. There is no such thing as fake video or fake info, right? Read what I wrote again please. Argue against my facts, if you can, because those are what we know rather than what we have been told.

aynen heliköpter hakkında söyledikleriniz çok mantıklı ama mars tozu çok hafif ve okadar inceki mars atmosferinde havalanması normaldir.

[@doyoubelive583]

Who camera writer a picture ROBOT got NASA

Sensacional lindo demais.

[@Rurikovich117]

Опять союз мультфильм.......
Нарисуйте что нибудь новенькое.

[@san4ello71]

Про рисование - это к кремлевскому бункерному гульфику)))

[@Rurikovich117]

@@san4ello71 вот эти мультики опять Путин рисовал!????
Да тебе лечение уже не поможет.

[@san4ello71]

@@Rurikovich117 Путин ещё и не такие мультики рисует, начиная от выборов и заканчивая ракетами. Да что мне вам объяснять, сами знаете)))

[@nurbeknaiman]

USA ✊🇰🇿✊

[@ardalla535]

Haven't they said the first flight would only go up a few feet and then back down?

[@inokentiiwoedger1452]

Оператор зайчиком слетал на марс🤣

[@velkovelkov]

Аниматор !

[@prmath]

🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️ just because we Can.......

[@mikelpaluca5913]

Fallso në mars nuk ka re në qiell.

[@alonsoferrari9900]

Su Marte all'orizzonte vedo le nuvole, allora si può vivere

[@mischa_myitalian_japeneses5243]

No.

[@francescolippiello2520]

Si ma io voglio vedere il video vero,no il finto.

[@allanhonrubia6851]

Plant some tomato

[@user-ev9rk7lp8w]

Это мультики

[@ilyakhripko6397]

А я с детства люблю хорошие мультики

[@Mr.Deleterious]

Cool except that's the Curiosity Rover, not Perseverance. 🙄

[@mgame8082]

No, this is Perseverance.

[@mnmumin9916]

Edit 😅