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There is currently a propeller driven VTOL aircraft operating on Mars. The thin atmosphere definitely poses some challenges, but those are offset a little by t
by JshWright 3y ago
There is currently a propeller driven VTOL aircraft operating on Mars.
The thin atmosphere definitely poses some challenges, but those are offset a little by the lower gravity. It's not easy, but it can definitely be done (as Ingenuity as shown)
- 2Gkashmiri 3y agowatching natgeo and discovery science shows (before they went to shit) years ago, i remember one time the narrator was saying something like "in future, nasa plans to fly unmanned unattended drones which will automatically decide the flight plan and navigation and collision avoidance because the roundtrip communication with earth is at best 20 minutes so it would be unfeasible to fly-by-wire from earth. at the time, it was genuinely sci-fi that we can send a small airplane to mars and have it zip across the skies there without human intervention and today that is already history. wow.