Ingenuity Helicopter Inspires Future Flights on Mars (Mars Report - April 2023)
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- NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made history when it achieved the first powered, controlled flight on another planet - and it’s inspiring future aerial exploration of the Red Planet, too. In this Mars Report, Ingenuity Team Lead Teddy Tzanetos at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory provides an update on the helicopter’s achievements and future plans.
This video shows testing for Sample Recovery Helicopters, which could serve as a backup retrieval system for Mars Sample Return, a campaign that intends to retrieve samples taken by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover for study here on Earth. These next-generation helicopters would be able to pick up and carry sample tubes in flight and also drive on the Martian surface.
Another future helicopter concept is the Mars Science Helicopter, a proposed six-rotor “hexacopter” that would be about the size of the Perseverance rover. It would bring important payloads to areas of Mars that are not currently accessible.
For more information on Ingenuity, go to: mars.nasa.gov/ingenuity
For more information on the Mars Sample Retrieval Helicopters, go to: mars.nasa.gov/msr/
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU - Věda a technologie
I've been watching space exploration literally from the very beginning. This little helicopter has fascinated and impressed me more than anything NASA has done for a very long time. I really wish this were getting more acknowledgement in the public. So many people really don't pay attention to space exploration any more. Well done Ingenuity team.
NASA needs to turn the comments on. Glad JPL hasn't turned them off.
im just really into this project. woww from Malaysia
To think this little chopper was just a tech demonstrator, and it went really far beyond what expected.
Just imagine what Dragonfly would do on Titan
vs hundred of these with seismic sensors to get an accurate geo map of mars
And the best thing is this drone uses some electronic components you can find in regular consumer devices, it's not like they used only state of the art, ultra expensive and tailor made components designed specifically for outer space
@Just remember who you're working for Kind of reminds me of cubesats.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory keep up the good work good luck
Fascinating!
Keep up the inspiring work!
I wonder if they've tested newer toroidal props at all.
Wow, it's been 2y already? Congratulations!
Such an incredible little machine. HUGE congratulations to the team at NASA-JPL, and of course little Ginny, for the recent milestone 50th flight.
Thanks for a nice little summary of all the great things to come. And Ingenuity started it all.
I can't wait for the sample recovery to get underway!
Love your team, thanks for the inspiration
If all NASA projects were as successful as Ingenuity....we would probably already be colonizing MARS! Great Job to all the team!
This is amazing!!
They're doing such an amazing and complex job at such an amazing pace!
The fact that there would be vehicles that can fly and drive on the surface of mars is amazing.
@@DgimaYugadge yes
Love the animations!
Ingenuity helicopter/drone is very cool. What a GREAT idea by someone. Congrats NASA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hexacopter 😍
That sounds hellish yummie !
Go for it and good success...
Ingy has set a benchmark and keeps pushing it
Incredible
Awesome!
Great Video! Would love some insights into technical challenges.
Obviously the Titan Dragonfly mission has many advantages. As Titan has low gravity and a dense atmosphere, the drone rotors will have a lot of grab and little gravity pulling down on it. Cant wait till it happens
1:50 Love that teaser of a potential destination!
So do I, that would be amazing!
I can only imagine that it and the NASA crew have to be very careful about keeping it safe from windstorms ( and duststorms?) since the only shelter it has is Perseverance. Excellent job NASA, JPL & Crew!!
I'm awed at how much knowledge we are getting about a world other than ours. I'm truly awed. Thank you JPL, and thank you NASA.
Rip lil hero!
The helicopter that was sent to Mars was and still is very helpful like that Hexa-Copter that they're still working on in order to send it to Mars to bring important information. 😀
2 years ago your tube had no zoom 🏎
I jumped out of my chair when y'all said Mars Science Helicopter!
Congratulations Mr. Tzanetos and Helicopters Team: "...trying to fly faster, trying to fly higher." but ¿trying to fly further?.
Thank you very much.
The future off flight on other worlds. What a great possibilities are open to us!
I'm just in wonder that these machines fly at all considering how thin the Martian atmosphere is.
Thats why it is so impressive.
It was intially a mere testing to see if you could fly a helicopter there (extremely specialised though). But the good news is yes and that it is still working as intended.
Talk about quality
Check out a Veritasium vid Derek did 4 years ago to see how this was tested. It was a VERY GOOD bet that this would work.
it CAN'T. so, the thing that is impressive is nasa's ability to sell LIES.!!!!!!!
I hope you are also including in this developing the ability to clean the dust off of the solar panel. I'm sure the lifetime of the unit would be extended greatly if you could clean the dust off of the solar panel.
NASA are experts at extending the life of their missions. The Spirit and Opportunity had a base life expectancy of about 90 days, and they managed to stretch it out by an additional 6 and 15 years respectively.
@@nicholashylton6857 yet they have consistently stated that dust-collecting on the solar panel reduced the life of the unit and eventually made it where the unit stopped working. They have never said that they have figured out how to get the dust off of the solar panel.
Sureley mounting the panel below the blades would provide some modicum of dust removal?
@@asarand Such systems are, for their function, super heavy. A lot of this particular criticism is levied on missions like spirit, opportunity and ingenuity- all of which were short term missions that managed to vastly outlive their planned lifespans in spite of not having such systems.
Bear I mind that ingenuity is optimized down to the milligram. Even a little compressed air cylinder and tube would throw off the whole thing's function. Is dust on panels a problem? Yes. But it's a less severe problem and harder to solve than you seem to believe.
Plus, newer rovers use RTGs and solar panels aren't a problem.
@@maxv9464 like I said, I am no expert. And I did not say or insinuate that solving the problem was easy. Just because the fix seems to be as simple as blowing some air across the solar panel, it doesn't mean that enabling that fix is simple. Which to me makes it obvious that they have not been able to figure it out yet. And they are the experts.
A small helicopter but a great step forward
where did the camera come from
Anything learned here should also be useful to operating the Dragonfly drone on Titan....
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Imagine how efficiently we could explore Mars with good plane design
HELIKOPTER
I'm shocked that Ingenuity has lasted as long as it has and conducted 50+ flights. This bodes well for future Mars exploration.
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Nasa should send swarm of bee like robots and more
if the dust is setting on top of the solar why not to make a small rotor above the solar to get rid of the dust? Or make a small robotic arm on mars rovers so you can clean solars yourself...
Robot was designed to make 1 test flight, that's it, everything else is just a bonus. The same is true to all Mars rovers, they are designed to work for few weeks, not enough time to get panels dusty. Everything else is free bonus.
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Imagine all this work being done by AI
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Next flyer, consider using the rotors to continually dust off the solar panels.
*Would it take much from the batteries if even non-flyers have this feature?
It seems to me dust is how we lose them.
I was thinking the same thing. Or that the panel could tilt over to help dust off.
Might be too abrasive for high performance solar panels. From what I've heard, a physical wiper would already have that problem, so blasting dust into the panels at high speeds sounds problematic.
@@jaredevildog6343 Have you never actually dusted anything around the home ever? You don't get rid of it by "tilting".
There wouldn't be nearly enough force from the props to dust the panels. Notice how your car still gets dusty AF even though you regularly subject it to blasts of high speed air?
@@AlbertaGeek electrostatic adhesion
And all of them there AI. ❤
How about put the solar panels under the rotors? Downwash will clean the dust from them.
The downwash hitting the panels would divert and reduce the lift.
The reduction could be compensated for with a different rotor design , depends what area generates most flow/lift, and if the reduced centre flow would be enough to dislodge possibly stick dust.
The diverted flow impinging on the rest of the downdraft could be problematic for control. The atmosphere is very thin the rotor velocity is very high.
The rotors would shade part of the panels from the start rather than a gradual dust accumulation.
It has already exceed design life by a great margin, cleaning panels is more of a concern for another day if planning much longer operating life which would mean more consideration and probably weight for all components.
e.g. what is the rotor abrasion rate for the anticipated life?
TWO helicopters could perhaps have occasionally dust each others panels.
Flying on a terraformed Mars would be an incredible experience. The universe is too dangerous to put all our eggs in one basket (Earth), and we must do all we can to propagate Earth life, which is the only life that we know exists. Let's make auxiliary homes for Life, starting with Mars.
Why can we not include a self cleaning mechanism to the river? 🤔
Originally this mission wasn't planned for more than a few weeks, so there wasn't a need.
Second, weight management is _extremely_ important for mission planning, particularly for the fuel needed to get to Mars safely, and especially for something that's small and meant to fly on Mars with its thin atmosphere. Every kilogram counts. It is hard to overstate this aspect. Except for vital contingencies, you never add more weight and complexity than you need to complete the mission. Keep it as light and simple as possible. The added mass of a cleaning mechanism was surplus to needs and would have been something else that could potentially break. As we can see, two years on - far beyond its intended use - it's still operating fine.
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So NASA and SpaceX will ferry an apache helicopter to Mars???
Why not show some actual footage, instead of generic simulations?
First off, congrats to the JPL helicopter team on a job well done, and I look forward to your future products. I do have complaint about the name of your aircraft. Now I know you likely don't have much of choice in your naming schemes, as I suspect it's driven by management (JPL or NASA HQ), but I still think these names are generic and bland. I also know this theme of names is trendy right now, but in the future, most people won't be able to tell the difference between the landers, rovers and aircraft because of the vagueness of the names. With this country's rich aviation legacy, we should be able to come up a better name for the first aircraft to fly on another celestial body. Just my $0.02.
Next mission Satan moon Titan video
How it works🙄 in 0,75% atmosphere? Someone is lying!
Hate me on mars
?!?!?!!?!?### and, how is it that nasa's uav IS ABLE TO FLY with rotors, where the atmosphere is TOO THIN to do that.??!?!?!?!?!
The Martian atmosphere is thin but Ingenuity can fly there because of its light weight, large rotor diameter, and high rotor speed.
It has an 'off the shelf' lithium battery and a cell phone processor. It cost 80 million dollars. I would sure like to see an itemised bill 🙂
Most of the cost went into years of R&D, not parts.
@@zounds010 The most expensive drone I could fine was $18,200. It still seems like a lot for design and research. Some coders have made a fortune out of this 🙂
@@paulhoughton1691 Nobody's made a 'fortune'. Finding out if a helicopter is viable in a 6 mbar atmosphere is not that simple.
@@zounds010 As long as there is air pressure aerofoils will work. There's over a hundred years of research on this. A simple vacuum chamber is a decent way of testing this, computer models also. It's not the mechaniics that is difficult its the autonomous system that presents challenges. Even that is not a unresearched idea, all the rovers and landers were autonomous, hazard avoidance etc. Now I'm even more curious to see where exactly 80 million dollars was used. What do you think?
@@paulhoughton1691 And that's exactly how it was tested. Find Veritasium's video from four years ago. Derek went to JPL to explore it.
Another interesting Sci-Fi story that never happened
NASA is flying a small helicopter on Mars.
What's the point? gimme back my tax money!
Knowledge is the point. My taxes are well spent is exploring Mars.
Yeah, like the half a percent of the Federal budget NASA has to run ALL its programs with could solve all the problems you want to whine about.
But the bloated US military budget - that's money well spent. Give it a rest, goofy. 🙄
Ask millitary.
И кто в эту чушь верит? Понятно, что им надо показать превосходство, чтобы валютой их пользовались.
Don't be jealous.
Good thing because as humanity has neglected and destroyed Earth we will need someplace to go.