Re:JPL's Plan for the Next Mars Helicopter
by rtkwe on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @05:31PM
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The issue is it has to be pretty big to carry much in the way of scientific instruments to begin with. Right now there's no scientific instruments on Ingenuity beyond the camera and that is only really useful for surveying the ground. Also Ingenuity can be risky because it's goal is to test the craft itself so they take risks with it to see how well the design performs at the edges of it's flight envelope.
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