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I don't know a lot about these missions. Does the rover have a sample gathering arm? would it be possible for the helicopter to be picked up and set onto someth
by RugnirViking 3y ago
I don't know a lot about these missions. Does the rover have a sample gathering arm? would it be possible for the helicopter to be picked up and set onto something? or carried around? seems like it would be useful to have the backup connection route to the rover like when they used the helicopter to troubleshoot the rover a while back. Or alternatively even as a backup sensor suite for the rover.
Plus the imagery of the rover carrying around its wounded little friend is too nice to pass up on
- foobarbecue 3y agoI like your creative thinking. Perseverance does have an arm with a drill, cameras, dust puffer, rock grinder, and spectrometers at the end. However, Ingenuity is deep in a dune field which Perseverance can't drive into. The rover is too heavy to safely drive in deep sand -- it would get stuck.