Questions tagged [ingenuity]
Ingenuity is the helicopter drone that flew to Mars on the Perseverance rover. Use for questions about the device itself. Use with the [perseverance] tag.
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How much decibels of noise would a person hear when ingenuity is at full speed in martian atmosphere?
The ingenuity heliccopter's rotors rotate at ~2400 rpm. How much noise would a person hear ( assuming no protective gear is required ) in martian atmosphere from 5 meters from ingenuity? How much ...
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Has a mockup/analysis of the Ingenuity 'bad landing' been created/posted?
I wonder how the helicopter's rotors became damaged during landing. Yeah, I know, tips hit the sand. BUT...I would think a fairly detailed simulation would have been created for a full understanding ...
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Ingenuity extended static mission science possibilites
Despite Ingenuity's inability to fly due to missing/damaged rotors, it remains in communication with Perseverance and Earth for now, sending back color images from navigation cameras and such. ...
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How high could Ingenuity fly?
On its 59th flight, Ingenuity achieved a height of 20 meters - twice as high as its maximum height during the original 5 flights that it was designed and expected to last for. In the scheduled 61st ...
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Could Perseverance survive if Ingenuity failed?
They both landed successfully and ingenuity was deployed. Perseverance drove away, and then Ingenuity failed. Could Perseverance survive on its own?
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Could Ingenuity survive if Perseverance failed?
For the purposes of this question, we will assume that they both landed successfully. Ingenuity was deployed properly. Then, Perseverance drove away, and then Perserverance say hit a large rock and ...
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What if Perseverance had experienced a fault after dropping Ingenuity?
When Ingenuity was released on the Martian surface in April 2021, Perseverance had to drive away to let the helicopter recharge its batteries with its solar panel. Was there a concern that the rover ...
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Mars gyrocopter - feasibility
Due to Mars' low density atmosphere, fixed wing flight requires impractically high velocities, and helicopter flight (as demonstrated by Ingenuity) requires high propeller RPM for sustained flight, so ...
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How fast are Ingenuity's knees wearing out?
Each leg of Ingenuity has what I'll call a knee. After just a few flights, on 2021 May 10, NASA wrote: By plastically deforming and fatiguing as it absorbs energy, this flexure acts much like the ...
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Why might Ingenuity be able to fly faster when it flies higher?
A 2022 March 15 NASA press release says: A recent software change already on the rotorcraft frees Ingenuity from its previously programmed maximum altitude of 50 feet (15 meters). The altitude gains ...
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What can we know or at least deduce about this "mysterious blob in an Ingenuity navcam image"?
Near the end of Mars Guy's new video Mars helicopter escapes sand trap linked below there's an image taken by the Ingenuity helicopter where an out-of-focus bit of debris passes in front of the navcam ...
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Is Ingenuity a "spacecraft?"
NASA calls its helicopter on Mars a spacecraft (status update, 2022 Jan 19). Why? Sure, Ingenuity is off Earth and it's mobile. But it can't toodle off to Phobos. It's in the same category as ...
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Thermal batteries rather than battery-powered heaters for small craft on Mars; how much mass would it add, how much would it replace?
As an example, the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars charges its batteries each sunny day (which is every day except when it isn't) and discharges them substantially each cold night (which is all of them) ...
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Where are Ingenuity's two swashplates and six servos? I only see one of each in this NASA/JPL-Caltech photo
Scitech Daily's Next Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flight Delayed Until After Conjunction – Here’s What Went Wrong says: Ingenuity controls its position and orientation during flight by adjusting the ...
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Why wasn't the high-speed rotation regime for Ingenuity tested on Earth?
On the NASA website, it says that the propeller on Ingenuity will need to spin faster than what has been done before during all of the previous tests to accommodate for the rarefied atmosphere during ...
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