Ingenuity: NASA's remarkable Martian helicopter
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- When NASA added a drone named Ingenuity to its Mars 2020 rover Perseverance, it expected the tiny four-pound helicopter to fly a total of five very brief missions in the thin Martian atmosphere. But Ingenuity far surpassed all expectations, flying dozens of flights before suffering damage to its rotors in January. Correspondent David Pogue reports on how the tiny drone, created from off-the-shelf parts, continued to provide valuable data and images from the Red Planet three years into its mission.
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I'm 81 yrs old and have followed the space program since Sputnik! got my attention. and marveled at The shuttles, Hubble, Webb, but I have to say "The Little copter that could" impressed me greatly and as a vet and a devout patriot, I can't express the pride I felt in that little critter and what it did. Great job to the engineers that created the "Little copter that could" ECF.
I am also 81and share your thoughts. Science has brought us many gifts. This was one of them.
I hope you'll still be with us when Elon finally puts humans on Mars!
The rock star of the mission.
Challenge beyond. Ha! But winter was hard.
Ah- funding. Baby will be aok. No matter what they do to it. Just wait n see.
If engineers ran the country, everything would work better than expected.
Except car engineers....
@@MikeC32958 Automotive engineers would make everything run great as well!
until your warranty runs out
What you said. Maybe I'm partial, though; my daddy was an electrical engineer.
@@MikeC32958 Sadly, they are constrained by corporate bean counters who control the show. OP's conclusion holds true. 😉
@@user-kk1ne9wf7j Being a retired engineer I would have to say yes and no, for engineers are human and have the same foibles as everyone else.
That said, that group of engineers that made Ingenuity seem to be te cream of the crop and my hats off to them for sure!
To Think, Kane Tanaka was born Jan 2nd 1903. In December of that same year, The Wright Brothers successfully made the world's first powered flight. 118 Years later, in 2021 the very first powered flight was achieved on another planet, when the ingenuity copter hovered over the surface of mars. On that date, Feb 18, 2021, Kane Tanaka was still alive at the incredible age of 118!
Best NASA news in a while.
I love this show so much. I sobbed through most of the story about the music festival where so many innocent people died. This story came on next, and I found my smile again. Thank you.
Amazing they can remote such a tiny unmanned device from that distance.
radio waves. A natural occurrence in our universe we have figured out how to utilize. Radio waves travel at the speed of light
@2147B....Still leaves a delay of over 30 minutes between Earth and Mars...
@@codymoe4986 pre program the f
Oghts with safety landings built in. To prevent crashed I event of LOS
Automated
Also, Ingenuity was quite a bargain at only $85 million to design and develop whereas Perseverance cost just under $3 billion, and that was cheaper than Curiosity because it could reuse parts and design to some extent. Curiosity cost $3.2 billion in 2020 dollars. Nonetheless, it is for sure that both rovers are far, far more capable in terms of the science they can do than Ingenuity. They are essentially roving laboratories.
Worthless, NASA welfare.
The little copter that could 🙂
Well done!
They should send a whole fleet of helicopters on Mars.
Fascinating! 🚁🚀😲
Whomever approved ingenuity should be recognized and promoted - it's not easy doing the right thing when stupid people are staring you down.
They've actually won several awards! www.nasa.gov/solar-system/nasas-pioneering-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-awarded-collier-trophy/
I followed its journey since perseverance mars landing. It was a great human achievement. Look forward to greater things ahead
Can't wait for that next generation of drone copters to take flight on Mars!
Its 80 below zero at night. Im definitely not going
I could CRY about the Wright brothers secreted inclusion. Beyond cool!
Very cool.
Iove that you see Mark Rober the CZcamsr in one clip. Lol
Well, you see his eyes. But I can tell it's him.
The great cheap experiment that has provided so much help and information to the MARS project. Thank god NASA administrators approved sending it up/along . What a a great confirmation for ingenuity/creative scientific work. Yeah!
Here on earth 150mph winds throw cars around like toys, but on mars 400mph winds don't mess with this little drone,smh
1% atmospheric density. And I'd love to know where you got 400mph? The strongest winds measured on mars is 60mph.
Yes, it is true that the winds on Mars can reach speeds of up to 400 miles per hour (about 644 kilometers per hour). Mars has a much thinner atmosphere compared to Earth, but the lower gravity on Mars allows winds to reach higher speeds than they would on Earth
Astounding 😮😊
5:50 WFH Ultimate level
Wow!
WOW, what a miracle and what a remarkable team accomplishment with the lucky charm ❤❤
I LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE this...& those people.
I always tell people, NASA does use a lot of resources but they are not wasteful with them. It may seem wasteful when it fails of course, but when it works it was worth every Penny.
Too cool!!!!!!!!
Touché' Lets keep building Mars drones!
So cool and amazing
Imagine building a helicopter capable of flying more the 65,000 ft. here on earth.
Yay NASA and the USA for achieving air flight on another planet! A space first!
Anybody else noticed that he said 427 at exactly 4:27 of the video?
It’s just amazing 😊😢
Ingenuity is little badass. Genius. Not embrassed but it has discovered a lot.
Ryanair be like
Wow
Ingenuity department could just had been a hobby part of NASA in the beginning of the mission. But the little Ingenuity worked hard to prove how important they are and eventually it paved the way for its predecessors to be born for future missions.
Lets build a small lightweight helicopter for Mars, a planet known for dust storms. What could go wrong!
Mar's atmosphere is very thin thus causing the wind to actually be quite weak, that is why the heli props have to spin insanely fast to fly. if you are referencing the movie the martian, the cause for the premise of the movie is false. it would be nearly impossible for the wind on mars to cause damage, the dust in the wind does more harm by blocking solar panels
Go NASA!
The interviewer is tickled pink about this.
Shout out to the engineers that do all these amazing things
Watching the first images of Ingenuity flying is like watching a baby taking its first steps. The interviewer may have felt some sort if giddiness especially since he covered Ingenuity since its development.
@@DigitalMangoShake You are absolutely right!
Why would anyone be against flying a drone on another planet?
Literally every gram of mass on the rover must be in service of its main science mission. Ingenuity had no specific science goal. It was a tech demo. It could have taken up room for an experiment that may be invaluable to finding life on Mars or, perhaps, sending people there.
And, of course, these missions aren't cheap.
( *Note:* If you're thinking Musk could send a mission - manned or unmanned - to Mars faster & for a fraction of the costs, that's complete nonsense. The guy habitually over-promises and under-delivers. Only now and then do they have a relationship with reality.)
They look alike , interviewed and interviewer
Scrappy widget. Glad that the idea caught on. Future missions will likely save a lot of time and $ with their own choppers. When are going to do this again?
Gonna have a plane next time talk is
@@user-ht1xu4gv2u How big will the proposed planes be?
It means so much to me to see the successes of our space program in terms of national pride, but it pleases me more when I think about what it means for humanity as a whole. All of humanity stands on the shoulders of those who came before from all walks of life. All of humanity in some way led us to this point. Humanity has put man into space! We’ve put man on our own moon! We’ve sent rovers to another planet! And now we’ve flown a mini helicopter on another planet! Like, this stuff is absolutely amazing! Just imagine what we could accomplish in our own country if we saw space as the great unifier that it is. Just think what we as a species could accomplish if we all put some effort into space exploration together rather! What leaps and bounds we could make in our journey for a better world because we chose to work together to explore space. Man, what a dream. Hopefully, a dream fully realized sooner rather than later.
Besides wings they should also add some wheels to Ingenuity!
great minds think alike... the next Mars helicopter WILL have wheels!
How long does it actually take to get there? And then, how long does it take to communicate?
It takes about 7 months during a Hohmann transfer orbit using current technology to launch from Earth and have a spacecraft make its way to Mars. Communication times varies depending upon both Earth's position in its orbit and Mars. Thus, it may be a few minutes to send a signal each way or much longer. Thus, real-time communication is not possible (in fact, "real-time communication" isn't really even possible past high-Earth orbit, well under lunar distance).
Data stored on rovers then uplinked to orbiters then to earth deep space network......@@marsbound2024
Greetings Madam I followed Up with Perseverance congratulations to the person who was selected for this and, such a great amazing Name ! ✌️😎👍🌎🤩
The fun didn’t stop there we are pioneers and, ingenuity after 7 months the last stop is a celebration 🎊
Good job Godspeed sincerely team earth 🌎
This makes me so proud of NASA. Space X etc. can take a hike as far as I'm concerned. Robotics is the way to explore the solar system, not send people on a "one way trip" to terraform another planet, & mess it up like ours. Hey, Mr. Musk why don't you spend your billions on helping get our planet back in order!
It should also be noted that Perseverance has been struggling with navigating since losing Ingenuity.
Here is the latest: czcams.com/video/ctyUdjd-kQg/video.htmlsi=QPEM2toURImZDvEa
This is just too cool and awesome.
For some reason (need to go back to googling more info to correct my thinking... not that it matters; I'm not going to Mars) I thought Mars was inhabitable. These temps and winters are definitely not! 😆
It's believed that Mars used to be habitable in the distant past.
Now it's just a rust bucket, most likely.
that would make it too far away for rocket to reach
nasa has made a drone more advance than anything dyi community could create
Thing. Thing.. Terminator…
😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅well information good show 😮😅😅
Can we change the name from Ingenuity to Lazarus?
I just hope those pieces from wright's did not bring any microbes to mars n_n
Mars version of the titanic submarine atleast its much better condition then the submarine
With this NASA might just find an alien made artifact! Wondering how quickly they’ll move to recover it or if they’ll even make it known.
Complete non sense.
Even if an ETI visited the Solar system at some point (and no, there's 0 evidence for that), why would they leave anything on Mars?
Lol
😊 we need to be impredecibles
Humanoid robot next to clean solar panets , but now it must able to see if plants can survive inside a glass for a longer time planet trees and anything growing in the cold weather
Seems like drones should have been the first vehicles up there. They wouldn't have caused as much damage.
But then again, all those rovers and landers that landed on Mars were and are, drones.
As much damage as what?
Leaving a few tracks that'll be gone in a while, and drilling a few holes hardly qualifies as 'damaging a planet'...
Damage?
well, time for more gaming
Now after its done. I would rather have my taxpayer money back. Truly it was Not worth it.
That’s some great footage of Arizona/Nevada desert
Oh stop it. You people are absurd.
@@Magdalena8008s Having all the answers before any question is even asked just makes life a lot safer.
Where's the plants and wildlife?
Something the deserts of the American SW, certainly have...
Tells me you've never been to Arizona or Nevada.
Here's some additional help for you to get through life...
The earth is not flat
California wildfires are not started by Jewish space lasers
We did land on the moon
We are not ancestors of an ancient race of lizard people
The Devil's Tower is not a giant tree stump
The earth is older than 6,000 years
If there's anything else I can help you with, please let me know.
There is absolutely no way that helicopter could fly in Mars atmosphere if it ever was there to begin with.
#notasheep
Why don't they all get together and get to the moon then go to these other planets,seems like such a waste of valuable time,put all your eggs in one basket ,got a helicopter and rovers on the Mars and nothing on the moon duhhhh,sorry you go right past the moon.
other countries already have landers, rovers, and orbiters on the moon, men have literally walked on the moon and brought back samples. a lot of science on the moon is known, Mars is a much greater mystery.
Kudos and congratulations to the team, You make us all look so humble.
Very cool! Maybe Ingenuity will become a sentient, VGER-like entity and return to Earth looking for its creator. 🤓
Such an amazing copter. Planned for 5 missions and it flew 3+ years, feeding us cool pictures and scouting the land for Perseverance. 🫡
Very cool.