[HN Gopher] Ingenuity: NASA's Mars helicopter makes it three fro...
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       Ingenuity: NASA's Mars helicopter makes it three from three
        
       Author : rwmj
       Score  : 38 points
       Date   : 2021-04-25 20:39 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | whiddershins wrote:
       | Three for three?
        
         | davidjgraph wrote:
         | That's US English, this is British English.
        
         | iab wrote:
         | "From" in this context I associate more with British English,
         | and "for" with American English
        
       | ridgeguy wrote:
       | After the planned flight program concludes, would it be possible
       | to have Ingenuity follow Perseverance on the rover's travels?
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       | Perseverance moves pretty slowly - it would seem straightforward
       | to have Ingenuity do a daily catch-up flight to stay within comm
       | range of the rover.
       | 
       | Having demo'ed flight successfully, it would seem useful to keep
       | using the helicopter to gather more engineering data.
        
         | MontagFTB wrote:
         | While I agree the idea would be novel and intriguing, it's
         | trying to keep alive an 84M experiment that was a footnote on a
         | multi-billion-dollar expedition. I don't think anyone would
         | want to jeopardize the latter for the former, no matter how
         | enticing.
        
           | systemvoltage wrote:
           | How would it jeopardize the rover?
        
         | jvanderbot wrote:
         | I think I remember that Percy will, at speed, outrun the copter
         | on a day-over-day basis. It's quite a bit faster on daily
         | average mostly due to much longer drives that are possible with
         | the new version.
        
         | _rpd wrote:
         | My understanding is that Ingenuity will act as a scout for the
         | rover, to make the rover's investigations even more productive.
        
       | HenryKissinger wrote:
       | I hope we start sending larger and larger aircraft on Mars. From
       | the current toy copter to Cessna sized planes and eventually
       | fighter jets and C-130 Hercules-like cargo aircraft we will need
       | to efficiently network distant Martian outposts with one another,
       | we will need paved runways, air traffic control, radars, hardened
       | communications suites, and living quarters to lay the foundation
       | for a truly permanent human colony on Mars. The goal should be to
       | grow a colony to thousands of people, living and working on Mars
       | for years at a time, or for the rest of their lives even, if they
       | wish so.
        
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