How NASA Lost and Found the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
In this video, I will talk about the Ingenuity Mars helicopter, a small, solar-powered, autonomous aircraft that made history by flying on another planet. I will explain what happened to the helicopter during its last flight, how NASA tried to restore contact, and what we learned from this amazing feat of engineering and exploration. I will also discuss how this mission will impact the future of Mars exploration, and why we should be proud and inspired by Ingenuity.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:01 What was Ingenuity and what did it do?
03:03 What happened to the helicopter and how did NASA try to restore contact?
05:26 What did we learn from the helicopter and how will it impact the future of Mars exploration?
07:03 Outro
07:36 Enjoy
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REST IN PEACE mighty bird. thank you for your hard work.
Rest easy Ingenuity. You far exceeded all expectations.
Future hover craft designs should consider a shroud around the blades to protect them. Also, the number of legs should be changed to either 3 or 5. An odd number of legs is preferable and tends to be more stable on landing. When a leg lands touches down on a protruding object, the craft "rotates" and can subsequently land on two legs. One can imagine how touching down on uneven terrain could end up in a tilted landing that could easily damage the rotator blades. We'll learn. But congratulations go to the Ingenuity Team. Kudos to you all!
NO NOW PERSEVERANCE HAS NO ONE TO TAKE SELFIES WITH!!!!!!!!!!!!!😭
As a UAV (drone) pilot, I can confirm several things about what seemed to have happened to Ingenuity. My UAVs also use a visual camera-based system to help with navigation & obstacle avoidance, & have both a color camera, & a number of lower-resolution black & white cameras, although they also have the benefit of having access to dozens of GPS satellites to aid in control & positioning when farther away from any objects - On Mars, no GPS satellites, or magnetic compass... Relatively featureless surfaces can & will cause confusion with the internal control system, as a result of conflicts between the IMU & what the camera sees, & this can & will likely cause stability & control problems. Of course, here on Earth, there is virtually no signal lag, & a human is available to compensate or to take manual control in any situation in real-time - Ingenuity, being so far from Earth, had no such real-time human control available due to the many minutes of signal lag between Mars, Earth, & back to Mars, & had to rely upon its own internal control systems; as advanced as they are, simply can't compare with a human at direct real-time control. Carbon-fiber composite propeller or rotor blades are incredibly strong for their light weight, but they are also very brittle, & likely even more so, in Mars' relatively colder temperatures, & at the speed of rotation that Ingenuity's rotors had to turn to fly, having them strike anything at all, even for an instant, would result in the damage indicated. Here on Earth, damaged propeller or rotor blades are easily & quickly replaced, but so far away on Mars... not so much! I'm so sorry to hear of Ingenuity's accident, & I've been cheering with every flight & scientific breakthrough accomplishment on Mars! Ingenuity went far above & beyond what was ever designed or expected - certainly a long string of successes which all of us can honor & celebrate! \o/
good work.... my friend
It did very well! The engineers should be very proud!
May lord be with you
If we eer get there , and establish a colon thats anle to sustain itself , the "Dirigible" would be the best form of air transport , unless we develope different tech , and power sources to use .
Why was the signal from the helicopter interupted and/or weak due to damaged rotorblades?
if it was a hard landing it could have shaken loose or damaged some of the internal components like the transmitter. for example it could have disconnected or damaged the transmitting antenna wich would dramatically shorten range and make the signal unstable
We should increase NASA’s funding and reduce the funding of lost causes.
Fix local problems first .
The money spent by nasa is nothing compared to for example the military budgets of countries.
Could not the laser on the rover "trim" the broken tip and do the same to its counter blade to balance?
Not just blade like yes it was damaged and has a chewed up bit but the fall to the ground damaged the internals hence the weak signal it has now to the rover.
How do you know it was just the tip ?
No images of the damage. Pity.
There are - seen on other channels ; bout quarter of a rotor , they recon , is missing .
"All good this must come to an end "
I volunteer to go repair it 😂
2:22 - "It continued to fly for more than nine months" - More like two years and nine months...
TAKE A PHOTO OF THE FUKN MOON BUGGY.
😂 It actually had a long life!
.right ...and did much more than it was supposed to do. ...ofcourse its creators are great. Great NASA scientists 🙏🙏👍
Interesting
it was captured by extraterrestrial beings
55 years so long...why never even 1 rover send back to " APOLLO LANDING SITE " ??? 🤔🤔🤔
Don't let it fly so high!
It did its planned flights. It was full send after that..
We should increase Nasa financing now. Planet Earth got enough trouble !
Fix the problems here first , before going off world to repeat the process , and have interplanetary wars instead .
The money spent by nasa is nothing compared to for example the military budgets of countries.
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I know how to recover the drone no need about the drone
Strange drone and rover over 300millions miles away but on the moon nada
I bet the Houthi shot it down with an Iranian missile.
We should stop financing Nasa now. Planet Earth got enough trouble !
Budget of nasa is nothing compared to any other state budget
No chance a helicopter can produce lift with 1% atmosphere. Don't be fooled
it does, because it wasn't made by you.
You forget gravity is so much weaker than here on earth .
@@kefhomepage - When it was tested before launch in a vacuum chamber, they took out all the air in the chamber except 1% to be equal with Martian atmosphere! There it was tested and worked under Earth's gravity!😉
@@GaryYates-pi9gy no , it was attached to a spring to simulate the gravity on mars .
@@kefhomepage - A spring to simulate Martian gravity? How would a spring to that ???🤔