This Helicopter Is Now On Mars!

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The Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity aims to make the first powered flight on another planet when it takes off on Mars. It has now landed and safely checked in with the rover. It should detach and fly within the first 30-60 days of the mission. I learned a lot getting to visit the drone right before it was mounted on the rover at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
How do you fly in 1% of Earth's atmosphere:
Have large rotors (they are 1.2m in diameter) and spin them very fast, around 2500 RPM (5x the speed of a helicopter on Earth).
Plus the aircraft has to be light:
The Mars helicopter weighs in at 1.8kg or around the same as a laptop. Every piece had to be stripped down for weight. Instead of using aerogel for insulation, the craft makes use of CO2 gaps between components. Even aerogel was too heavy!
One of the major challenges is surviving the Martian night:
Temperatures plunge to -80C to -100C so two thirds of the craft's power is actually used to keep its electronics warm. Only one third is used for flying. The estimated flight time is 90 seconds.
The craft can't be driven remotely, it will have to fly autonomously, using its own sensor suite to determine how to fly. The round trip 20 minute delay with Earth means steering the craft from mission control would be impossible.
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Jonny Hyman was a legend in editing, animation, filming, and sound design for this video.

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Lilia Tarlev
Vor 7 Stunden
Hey did you know NASA managed to get a part of the Wright brotherses plane and put it on ingenuity
DarkLight 2.1
Vor 11 Stunden
The latest try at a full speed spin up was successful. They are shooting for first flight on 4/19.
Twitch.tv/Morkani
Vor 17 Stunden
how does it find a safe spot to land after flight?
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Vor 2 Tage
i like how you can see this woman is so into her work and her thinking is so fast that you can literally see her trying to say the words before she has even said them. i don't see many people thinking this smart around me. wish i could be in a more high paced learning environmenty
David Elm
Vor 2 Tage
I imagine even with the heating they did, they used a low temperature battery. I wonder how that technology differs from standard battery technology.
Fraser Wilson
Vor 3 Tage
It sounds like a 1960s f1 car
m ofi
Vor 3 Tage
the former soviet company Kamow is using that rotor design for more than 70 YEARS!! ...
Aathik Adam
Vor 3 Tage
cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
P V
Vor 3 Tage
Chytrá paní doktorka z rodu Inků je milá. Doufám, že po ni nepožadovali, že za to, že vrtulník vystřelí na Mars, musí zaplnit montážní místnost Ingenuity v JPL zlatem až po svou hlavu. Jinak asi cena projektu vyjádřená zlatými cihlami by postavila pořádnou zeď. Dalo by se to lehce vypočítat.
Tolis Den Paei Kala
Vor 3 Tage
To this day it failed to fly well........bumer
_bin_wave_lab_ _l_e._
Vor 4 Tage
Aerodynamically interesting wingslett near the rotor
Genghis Khan
Vor 4 Tage
This didnt age well lol. They could have asked us racing and fpv drone builders for advice , we coulda sent a sortie of drones doing the same thing in the space of that......THING
Mark Alexander
Vor 4 Tage
but i thought mars didnt have air, how can it fly?????
Dale Sajdak
Vor 3 Tage
@Mark Alexander Mars has an atmosphere, it’s just a lot thinner.
Mark Alexander
Vor 4 Tage
@DarkLight 2.1 oh i get it mars is in area 51 right?
DarkLight 2.1
Vor 4 Tage
Mars has an atmosphere.
Michael Mancini
Vor 4 Tage
Don't anyone ever say to me, that there no such thing as American Exceptionalism , what would you call this??
Jae Choi
Vor 4 Tage
Why did they do the complex pulley system to offset the weight instead of taking the batteries out and reducing the weight that way? Is there something I am missing? Maybe they want to test the entire system without any hardware modifications I suppose?
Publius2k4
Vor 4 Tage
This will not be the first powered flight. Technically, the sky cranes that lowered the rivers safety to the ground in the last few rover missions have been the first powered flights on other planets.
moslondon
Vor 5 Tage
No it is not ....
Joshy Greenaway
Vor 5 Tage
NO, Its in ur hand
Annette Hall
Vor 6 Tage
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BBSkunk
Vor 6 Tage
@2:00 he's comparing a helicopter to a drone(RPM): Parrot AR Drone 2.0 motor - Range of these motors begins at 10,350 RPM and it goes up to 41,400 RPM.
Monotone Photographer
Vor 6 Tage
Gronkowski is a scientist!
Ishan Pujari
Vor 6 Tage
Hats off to Balram
Beulah West
Vor 6 Tage
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William Peterson
Vor 6 Tage
I once coached an Odyssey of the Mind team. The record is holding up to 1,000 lbs. using 35 grams of Balsa.
Nature Matters
Vor 6 Tage
Its going to fly in less than a week
lord0o
Vor 7 Tage
So, they are spitting, touching, this device without proper protection to avoid microbial residue on another planet, interfering with future discoveries mixed with our microbia. am I crazy or something to think about this?
Bop
Vor 6 Tage
That’s not the one that’s actually on Mars
InCrIpTiOn
Vor 7 Tage
Also note that the speed of sound on Mars is lower than on Earth
Drone Dome FPV
Vor 7 Tage
I watched the prop test of this craft a year after this video was uploaded. Epic!
Drone Dome FPV
Vor 7 Tage
As a FPV Quadcopter pilot, this gets me all excited & nerded out.
Akaboy4life
Vor 7 Tage
Its not first drone Its first Air drone. Dont forget the satalites, the rovers and mini shuttles.
Tabish Sohail
Vor 7 Tage
Nobody did it so I had too "MARSCOPTER GO BRRRRRR!!"
VICKY VENGURLEKAR
Vor 8 Tage
Good 😎
Ragnar Ragnarök
Vor 8 Tage
How does it cope with the extreme temperatures on Mars?
Zeen Daniels
Vor 5 Tage
It's explained in the video, it uses energy from its battery to power up heaters.
Ragnar Ragnarök
Vor 6 Tage
@ThiccDuck 95 Well, that depends on the season. Mars's atmosphere is about 100 times thinner than Earth's. Without a "thermal blanket," Mars can't retain any heat energy. On average, the temperature on Mars is about minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 60 degrees Celsius). In winter, near the poles temperatures can get down to minus 195 degrees F (minus 125 degrees C). A summer day on Mars may get up to 70 degrees F (20 degrees C) near the equator, but at night the temperature can plummet to about minus 100 degrees F (minus 73 C).
ThiccDuck 95
Vor 6 Tage
its just 0 - -100 degrees cold thats not extreme for robots:D
Tomasz Budnik
Vor 8 Tage
wonder how much cost tax payer that NASA have build bigger version of DJI drone? ;)
Did3D
Vor 8 Tage
better way is a cage around cause is it fall on side it finished
Mythili varadhan S r
Vor 8 Tage
The first flight is going to take place day after tomorrow!!!!
Rhineland Nagel
Vor 8 Tage
Would the speed of sound not be slightly altered if said speed is in a less dense atmosphere ? And would this not alter the speed at which the rotors are able to rotate?
How Does it Really Work
Vor 7 Tage
The speed of sound does not depend on pressure, but it does depend on temperature and the elemental composition of gas. It will be -50C on Mars during the flights, and the atmosphere is largely carbon dioxide instead of mostly nitrogen on Earth. People at JPL know all that, and when they talk about the speed of sound, they mean the speed of sound on Mars.
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How Does it Really Work
Vor 8 Tage
Great video, it was very cool to see and hear the creators of Ingenuity! But I really wish you would not have said that _"on Earth helicopters spin their blades at 500 rpm"_ (to contrast it with how fast Ingenuity's blades spin 1:45). It is indeed a very intuitive thing to say that Ingenuity flies in the thin atmosphere of Mars _"because its blades spin crazy fast"_ but the reality is much more subtle. The helicopters on Earth spin their blades in a very wide range of rpm, depending on the size of the helicopter -- from below 200 rpm for the large full size helicopters, to 8000 rpm for DJI drones. If we compare Ingenuity to the RC helicopters of equal size, we would see much more similar rpm. RC helicopters with the rotors of the same 1.2 meter diameter as ingenuity (550 or 570 class) spin their blades at 2000-2500 rpm and even faster for some aerobatic flying. This does not, of course mean that Ingenuity is just another off-the shelf RC helicopter -- or course it is different in many parameters! But even though it seems counter-intuitive, the rpm is not one of these differences that make it fly on Mars. It would be more meaningful to say that the very wide and specialized rotor blades of Ingenuity could lift it on Earth with just 500 rpm (if it had sufficient torque, strength etc). Then, 2500 rpm on Mars is indeed very fast in comparison.
Interstellar Escape
Vor 8 Tage
Wow cool! I have a video of Ingenuity's first rotor spin test on mars live now
Rodrigo Figueroa
Vor 8 Tage
La wea wena weon o
Geoffr524
Vor 8 Tage
I had remembered that 71,000 feet above Earth is the same as the lowest spot on Mars?
EventHorizon
Vor 8 Tage
That’s insane if true. considering that at 71,000 feet there’s almost no air up there anymore, and to come to realization that’s equivalent to the lowest point on Mars? damn, this stuff is so interesting. yeah we definitely cannot go on Mars without protective suits.
Daniele Bianco
Vor 9 Tage
I SOOOOOOOOOO LOVE THIS CHANNEL
Felipe Ferrer
Vor 9 Tage
if the atmosphere is so thin in Mars there would be no blades sound like the one in the animation, or not?
Felipe Ferrer
Vor 7 Tage
@How Does it Really Work beautiful, thanks!
How Does it Really Work
Vor 8 Tage
It is not an animation. It is a test of the actual helicopter in a room where air has been pumped out to create conditions exactly like on Mars. And that was how it sounded.
Mabel Campbell
Vor 9 Tage
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Attilio Bastos Guarnieri
Vor 9 Tage
Que sorte a minha. DEtops me presenteou com este vídeo altamente explicativo a respeito de Ingenuity. Desfez minhas dúvidas. Obrigado a toda a equipe do vídeo. Espero agora pelo 12 de Abril. Go !
Donovan Babnik
Vor 9 Tage
The guy in the red polo is like a nerdy Gronk
MindBlown Watcher
Vor 9 Tage
China greatly appreciates all of the new intel from this project😏
Jestronix Handerson
Vor 10 Tage
No return to rovers belly at night for food and shelter ?
Zeen Daniels
Vor 5 Tage
No
Martin Tedder
Vor 10 Tage
I love how they committed to hireing scientists from a diverse hight group....
breezelow unknown
Vor 10 Tage
What a liar! The copter is obviously in a lab on earth, NOT on Mars! They think we will believe ANYTHING they say!!
Captain Ahab
Vor 10 Tage
On mars now
ı Metr
Vor 10 Tage
what is purpose of called chinese weight?
ı Metr
Vor 8 Tage
@How Does it Really Work thank you for answering
How Does it Really Work
Vor 8 Tage
It compensates some of the inertial forces and makes it easier for the servos to move the blades.
Tens
Vor 10 Tage
This sounds so bs. Just saying... I don't believe it.
Zeen Daniels
Vor 5 Tage
You can believe what you want. That doesn't change the facts.
Bop
Vor 6 Tage
What about this is BS?
Captain Ahab
Vor 10 Tage
Very soon
Captain Ahab
Vor 10 Tage
It about to fly now
Jay Bay
Vor 10 Tage
If Gronkowski stayed in school
Mars Hampson
Vor 10 Tage
get it off
Pleyland
Vor 10 Tage
On the topic of going to Mars the necessity to drink pee rarely comes up
Captain Ahab
Vor 10 Tage
Astronauts recycle urine every day with no problem
roundcornerent
Vor 10 Tage
At least they don't have to worry about flyin the drone in to any trees .
breezelow unknown
Vor 10 Tage
OR power lines.
The Things
Vor 11 Tage
You have change the title of the video for more views , in 2019 ''this helicopter'' was not on Mars. Why have you done this ? I think you and your videos are very popular and you don't need this trickery...
FlyingHangman
Vor 11 Tage
I'm curious as to why they didn't just attach the fishing line, through the pulley, to something 62% the weight of the chopper... surely that means that the amount of weight it has to lift is only 38% of its original weight
How Does it Really Work
Vor 6 Tage
That would only work perfectly when the helicopter does not accelerate up or down. If it does accelerate, then the actual mass of the helicopter plus the mass of the counterweight would be accelerating, and that would require a factor of (1+2/3) more force vs just the force to accelerate the mass of the helicopter itself. So the dynamics of the altitude control would not be quite the same. I do not know if that was important or not. One could also imagine using a long rubber band to pull the helicopter up with a force that is approximately constant, but that would also not be quite as perfect as the more complex system which they have implemented. It would be curious to know if there was some really important reason to do it the way they have done it, or if people at JPL simply have a habit to always do things in the best way possible.
Ming Xuan Lee
Vor 11 Tage
Wait, did the title changed?
Royal Thoughts
Vor 11 Tage
Then why cant they use thrusts instead of fan blades ..
Hubert Marciniak
Vor 11 Tage
Thrusters would require a constant supply of fuel. Using rotors that are moved by electric motors ( powered by rechargeable batteries) is much more "fuel" and mass efficient.
Paulo J.
Vor 12 Tage
Asians are on this project? How would ppl hate asians on this monumental event
Sammy Spaniel
Vor 12 Tage
This video takes on new significance now that the copter is on Mars ready to fly it's first mission.
Blake Evans
Vor 7 Tage
Yesterday marks the first public video footage released of the propellers spin test!
Ivan’s Dirt Diaries
Vor 12 Tage
Plot twist: Ingenuity was deployed yesterday and has survived its first night on the martian surface!!! Exciting times!!
Ace King
Vor Tag
Sol 55 still looking good
Br1ngTheActi0n
Vor Tag
@Deval Maheshwari any updates?
Deval Maheshwari
Vor 6 Tage
Plot twist twist: ingenuity failed its teest spin and now the flight has been pushed back
vyom bafna
Vor 8 Tage
The 5 th day
Mimino 01
Vor 12 Tage
It would be interesting to find out if there are any plans to send inflatable Zeppelin to the Mars , they could use Kevlar encased durable balloon and flexible solar panels for power , so is would be easier to observe larger areas
Captain Ahab
Vor 10 Tage
Vacuum zeppelins are possible on mars
Lucifer
Vor 13 Tage
Why are humans spreading their waste onto other planes of existence. You humans are going to get wiped out. The Creator made a mistake by creating you pathetic lifeforms
Lucifer
Vor 10 Tage
@Thomas farquhar within the darkness of the brain of humans... that beautiful organ they call the pineal gland... that's where you'll find the best dealer...
Thomas farquhar
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@Lucifer damn these must be some good drugs, where's your dealer
Lucifer
Vor 10 Tage
@Thomas farquhar no.. trust me.. the new beings that exist amongst you now... we're nothing like you humans that we're generated within this matrix in the last 1000 years... We are the new race of hybrids... We dont like what this world and societies have turned into... We are here to start the New World... 1 that's automated without the flaws and mistakes of humans. Ordo Abchao.
Thomas farquhar
Vor 11 Tage
Either you got so high you've forgotten what species you're a part of or you need therapy
Zeen Daniels
Vor 12 Tage
@Lucifer You, you are on drugs (or need psychiatric help).
It's all lies
Vor 13 Tage
Looks like a drone not a helicopter
Le KikooLol
Vor 12 Tage
@Zeen Daniels I mean, nasa call it helicopter so why contradict nasa
Zeen Daniels
Vor 12 Tage
It's both... Actually
Le KikooLol
Vor 12 Tage
still helicopter
Somraj Rao
Vor 13 Tage
The helicopter drone is going to fly on 11 april 2021😍😍
David Burton
Vor 13 Tage
04:15 Wow, CBD did wonders for Gronk.
Тимур Сапаров
Vor 13 Tage
And now, few days left till take off. Congratulations to the creators of first helicopter on Mars!
vyom bafna
Vor 8 Tage
Ir might have lift of by today
Minepaper Studio
Vor 12 Tage
Noice
BeActive Behappy
Vor 13 Tage
Perseverance rover has already found signs of mOre intelligent life on Mars than a flat earth conference.
RS Nekmes
Vor 13 Tage
The Ingenuity on Mars has some really cool spring leg joints that are missing on the Ingenuity shown here.
Jimmy Bond
Vor 13 Tage
On Mars one year ago ??? 🤣😂🤣
Thomas farquhar
Vor 11 Tage
@Jimmy Bond the helicopter is on Mars though, not clickbait
Ax Eee
Vor 13 Tage
@Jimmy Bond LOL 😂
Jimmy Bond
Vor 13 Tage
Ahh so it was a lazy click bat attempt !!! 🤣😂🤣
Ax Eee
Vor 13 Tage
I think he changed the title.... Use some brain
klr 68
Vor 13 Tage
in its first low level flights wont this kick up so much dust that photography would be impossible, and will the solar panels be affected by the dust
Aled Long
Vor 14 Tage
Anyone who flies RC helicopters knows this is pseudo scientific fantasy!
Aled Long
Vor 12 Tage
@Zeen Daniels You needed to hear, denied.
Zeen Daniels
Vor 12 Tage
@Aled Long So you can't. You just needed to say that...
Aled Long
Vor 12 Tage
@Zeen Daniels Asperger's???
Aled Long
Vor 12 Tage
@Zeen Daniels Dude??? What are you hiding???
Zeen Daniels
Vor 12 Tage
@Aled Long Dude... Just do the maths of shut up. Your choice.
Bongo Fury
Vor 14 Tage
Ah, to be paid billions to horse around with drones in space......... Nice work, if you can get it.
Bongo Fury
Vor 14 Tage
His sexy collar is his security pass. What’s his sign? “Right on, man....”
Matilde Mai Skousen
Vor 14 Tage
Is the baldes weight 4x35 g or 2x35 g? (2:57 min)
How Does it Really Work
Vor 6 Tage
4x35 g, but that is just the "paddle" part without the root with the chinese weight, horn, and the bearing. With the hardware, the blades are about 4x45 g
About Space
Vor 14 Tage
Cool! I love watching this, thank you!
BILL POWER
Vor 14 Tage
They should have contacted Boston Dynamics and put a 2 leg robot on the surface instead of this rubbish.
Nasu
Vor 15 Tage
Honestly... how f***ing awesome is that?!
ik
Vor 15 Tage
they could use a spring mechanism (kinetic propultion ) so that its shoots up and take photographs from higher altitude
Naveen Kumar
Vor 15 Tage
"it's swimming in a think soup" but in that same thick soup we could be able to fly drones and other. could you through some light on it. is it not like a very small, light weighted insect flying.
tonysshadow
Vor 15 Tage
Amazing!...in my lifetime. I barely rememberJohn Glenn, then my first real introduction to death when Grissom, White, and Chaffee died in the fire. Now we are FINALLY back in space and not just pussy-footing around.
Chip Diamond
Vor 15 Tage
80 million dollar drone .....
Bobby Vincent
Vor 15 Tage
15:35 maybe rovers will be the future companions to aircraft
Bobby Vincent
Vor 15 Tage
Why does this copter look suspiciously like it's going to be playing golf instead of doing work on Mars?
Hubert Marciniak
Vor 11 Tage
@Bobby Vincent I guess humour doesn't always come through in DEtops comments ;) Let's hope the craft will do ok, and Percy will deliver some sick pictures and vids of drone flying!
Bobby Vincent
Vor 11 Tage
@Hubert Marciniak I was just making a joke about the golf club lookin legs. It's only in the air for like what 90s ....... it does what it does and I'm quite sure it will do a great job and be well worth the trouble of all the work they put in to get it there
Hubert Marciniak
Vor 11 Tage
@Bobby Vincent If the craft is light enough, then I suppose it doesn't need big beefy legs. Besides, it won't do any serious work. It's "only" goal is to test if such a drone/helicopter is a viable way of exploring Mars (and take a few pics along the way/test the navigation software). If it succeeds (meaning: it will be able to lift off, control it's flight and land), then it will create a path for future, more advanced crafts.
Bobby Vincent
Vor 11 Tage
@Hubert Marciniak it's legs look like '5 wood' golf clubs
Hubert Marciniak
Vor 11 Tage
What is so suspicious about it?
MOLE
Vor 15 Tage
This guy has unrestricted access to the entire world
Redem Legaspi
Vor 16 Tage
Flying a helicopter on Mars proves that an atmosphere is present on the red planet.
Captain Ahab
Vor 10 Tage
~1% atmosphere
Zeen Daniels
Vor 16 Tage
Nothing new, really. The atmosphere of Mars is a fact known for more than a century now.
cris paredes
Vor 16 Tage
Wow
valmont1702
Vor 17 Tage
3:33
Antero PH
Vor 17 Tage
Sound of helicopter: "Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah" 😂
BILL POWER
Vor 17 Tage
Worst thing you can send to mars a helicopter.Worst thing contra rotation version for very obvious reasons.
Bop
Vor 6 Tage
@BILL POWER ?
BILL POWER
Vor 16 Tage
@DarkLight 2.1 My own.
DarkLight 2.1
Vor 17 Tage
What video were you watching? LOL
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Angusburgerman
Vor 18 Tage
I saw the title and I knew he had updated it. Nice!
Guralam Bir Singh Jandu
Vor 18 Tage
Hey why don't they just simply use the the battery of the mars rover at night to keep the mars glider warm and charged at night as that would be attached all night with the mars rover and mars rover could also charge the glider much faster and efficiently... By this they could be able to fly twice the time as normal... This would be as a parent parenting its child 🧐😀
A B
Vor 18 Tage
Connecting the two vessels would be very difficult
Mac Kettner
Vor 19 Tage
Damn.......... it must have been awe-inspiring standing that close to it and then seeing the images from Mars. ;)
R H
Vor 19 Tage
I would HATE having to rely on some explosions to flip the helicopter right-side up onto the ground. I know its all calculated by people that actually understand this stuff but still that has to be nerve racking because its not like you can just pick it up...