[HN Gopher] Ingenuity: NASA's Mars helicopter makes it three fro... ___________________________________________________________________ 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) (HTM) web link (www.bbc.co.uk) (TXT) w3m dump (www.bbc.co.uk) | 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? | | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-04-25 23:00 UTC)