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Can't wait for them to fly a drone into one of those things

• alamortsubite 4y ago
  Since 1981, there's been an elite team of pilots training for exactly this mission: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caverns_of_Mars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caverns_of_Mars
  • 14 4y ago
    TIL I am qualified to fly a space mission
  • LightG 4y ago
    We're ready.
• flaskrabbit 4y ago
• verisimi 4y ago
  How would you fly in such a low atmosphere?
  • flohofwoe 4y ago
    Same as on Earth, the aerodynamics are just a bit different. There's already a helicopter flying around on Mars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingenuity_(helicopter) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingenuity_(helicopter)
• qiskit 4y ago
  Hopefully they'll send more drones to mars, moon, etc and less rovers. Unless there are technical reasons I'm not aware of, why wouldn't they scout with drones instead of rovers?
  • _mhr_ 4y ago
    Perhaps because dust storms would ruin the rotors?
  • zokier 4y ago
    The science payload that an aircraft can carry is much smaller compared to a rover. Also due mass restrictions (afaik) copters are solar-powered, while rovers can be rtg powered; this is pretty relevant for cave exploration as it would be pretty catastrophic for a copter to run out of power in a cave where as rover could at least hypothetically find its way back out.