How NASA Engineered a Helicopter for Mars | WIRED

It's not easy designing a new helicopter, especially if that new helicopter has to survive a ride on a rocket into space. NASA's Ingenuity helicopter is the first machine aerial vehicle to fly on a planet outside Earth. Ingenuity was designed specifically to fly on Mars. So, why did NASA decide to design a helicopter specifically for Mars?
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[@Easedaray]

There should be a lego Ingenuity set.

[@quentinmanson3287]

Imagine: Your a kid at a museum on Mars and an old guy tells you the story of the first aired flight on Mars.

[@leonardwaga]

Why do we have to tell stories to children when we can just show him KZbin videos about the Mars Helicopter

[@quentinmanson3287]

@@leonardwaga 🤯 you blew my mind

[@babecat2000]

@Lies Exposed get an education

[@kris348ka8]

Maybe it’s because I’m still early but how tf does everyone in the comments have the IQ of a slice of bread.

[@firstlast9731]

o k

[@tungttu8731]

I dont know what you talking about pls can you explain me?

[@dk8296]

This comment section has the combined IQ of room temperature.

[@rosinros]

TRUUUUUUUEEEEEEEEEEE

[@magnanimus9692]

I saw your comment first and wondered "aww c'mon, how bad can it be?" so I scrolled down and, well, you were correct.

[@thesukkelman]

In kelvin i hope.

[@Gasta1983]

I just hope it makes your couch feel better to know that average KZbin scroller is not an expert in physics. Also IQ is overrated.

[@justanotherguy-4059]

@@Gasta1983 "IQ is overrated" lmao

[@imogen1]

"It's not easy designing a new helicopter, especially if that helicopter has to... be controlled by these guys..."

[@60p]

Lol. I see what you did there.

[@inakiquintana8655]

Jajajaka

[@ScottFernandezscooter313]

I love how bare-bones designs for NASA rovers and other instruments and now vehicles are. You watch sci-fi movies and TV and you see high-end designs with sleek curves, clean white shells... like you'd expect a new iPhone to look like. But in reality, Ingenuity is basically a box made of gold foil with 2 carbon fiber rotors, 4 kickstand legs, and a small solar panel with a tiny antenna for comms.

[@etdislikethis]

think of it like this we discovered the earth in wooden boats and horses, non of which are really used for travel anymore.

[@superslimanoniem4712]

Weight. Making stuff aerodynamic when it's not needed is a waste of payload capacity

[@chrisez3188]

So awesome! We’re getting close to having a space station in orbit around Mars and infrastructure on the planet

[@Charlie-js8rj]

After reading some of these comments, quick PSA: If you thought up some "genius idea" while watching the video, a room full of the best engineers and scientists probably already thought of it during the years of planning and design. You're not all that special.

[@wrong_dimension]

What if ?!

[@olaaf_eu9]

A video about NASA/JPL where imperial system is used (miles and Fahrenheit), ehhh Wired.

[@foradecontexto4672]

Can you put the measurements unity in metric please?

[@tonyarichards5430]

No. NASA uses Imperial measurements.

[@foradecontexto4672]

@@tonyarichards5430 No NASA has ostensibly used the metric system since about 1990 Like the rest of the word who use the normal people measurements

[@Vanished_Mostly]

I've always been a fan of just using both.

[@howardbaxter2514]

Why does it matter? Just do the conversion yourself.

[@foradecontexto4672]

@@howardbaxter2514 because all the world use metric

[@heraldshalomvallente2336]

That [indistinct] is "Yaw" term used in aviation about the side to side movement of an aircraft.

[@rosinros]

everyone gansta till some idiot crashes the helicopter

[@wildrhino7847]

2:18 there’s an onscreen error there, the actual range is 1900 - 2200

[@justsomepersononyoutube9271]

Nice helicopter

[@Raghav-lk1uu]

Good job 👍

[@TheMysteryMushroom]

Good copter :3

[@PhuocNguyen-js6hy]

Awesome awesome awesome👍👍

[@acikacika]

Dafuq is going on in the comments, target audience selection went wrong?

[@cheesestick9100]

finally a smart person in the sea of dumb people that is the comment section

[@AleixoAlonso]

The fact that this video is about science and engineering and Wired chose to use feet, Fahrenheit, and unicorn-hooves as units of measurement makes me very icky :)

[@TRBenjiSwiss]

same

[@haiohaihai2097]

yeah, that's an L

[@hush3956]

Welcome to "Dumbing it down" Featuring all news channels. They kinda have to tbf so that even the idiots can feel included in this stuff but not many are interested in this typa stuff in the first place

[@AleixoAlonso]

@@hush3956 I see what you mean xD You're probably right haha

[@Ventrishero]

2:06 smooth...

[@Hyuzuka]

AAAAA in the future, please include metric system measurements -- at least as an onscreen translation, especially in a scientific video...

[@PhuocNguyen-js6hy]

Great 👍

[@dfalconerio]

cant wait till amazon starts sending orders to mars

[@ropro9817]

Come on, Wired, could you at least use metric when talking science?

[@maxmeister6355]

The helicopter got up to speeds of 24 hamburgers per school shooting

[@ropro9817]

@@maxmeister6355 Now, that's more like it. XD

[@yomommasofine]

hey man, can you please speak in english? (/s)

[@llikoo9987]

Why not?

[@shruthisrikumar5907]

This gotta be so channelging

[@raulcoronado6024]

👍

[@user-kk1ne9wf7j]

NASA: "You will be tasked with flying 5 successful test flights over 30 Martian sols". Ingenuity: "Hold my beer".🍺

[@UnpossiblePOG]

NASA Employees are getting older, they have to give opportunity to young blood and talented brains just like they did with Ingenuity team.

[@mikobee6682]

intergalactic gornlings

[@srinivasraokalluri8192]

I hope some one will fly in a real helicopter on Mars may be soon

[@srinivasraokalluri8192]

Yes it would be nice 🙂

[@venkatsaitejakalluri5846]

Yes soon Elon Musk dog will fly in it😄😅

[@Us3r739]

@@venkatsaitejakalluri5846 allah

[@babecat2000]

@Lies Exposed haha! Get an education.

[@psluxx]

Enemy uav up ahead

[@technicalediting1434]

❤️

[@mstlaboni967]

So good

[@johnjames732]

at lying

[@babecat2000]

@@johnjames732 wrong uneducated one.

[@heraldshalomvallente2336]

sol after sol, that's the day in space sol for sun. HAHAHAHA SOUL HAHAHAHAH

[@MrFoxRobert]

Thank you!

[@mikekozi-lester3887]

Make Knight Rider Space SHIP they are looking for a vehicle

[@fhaddad3]

What do you do for a living? I fly a drone on Mars 😳

[@christiantavares172]

I cant wait to show my students next year! They will freak!

[@Aaron-ru6ld]

Oh no a bit moji

[@Us3r739]

For what class? Aerodynamics?

[@didomoreira6596]

all very beautiful but I'm curious to know what NASA doesn't show.

[@PirateCat822]

The very boring footage of the rover moving by some boring mountain that doesnt have anything on it,not even a non existent face

[@eddie_ad2050]

These comments are scary

[@TengahSleep]

It’s a drone?

[@dirtrider88]

number of comments about stupid comments - 56,453,325 number of actual stupid comments - 456

[@RTECHHOUSE]

WIRED op 😍😍

[@isaa20100]

nice

[@marcoantoniopadillaorozco3591]

Nice

[@davidboucher3584]

Why are they wearing hazmat suits while building a helicopter?

[@thejunioryoutuber1290]

So they dont contaminate mars

[@Agarwaen]

@@thejunioryoutuber1290 Rather so they don't contaminate the probe with dust, water droplets or whatever else might damage sensitive parts. It's standard procedure for building regular satellites too.

[@davidboucher3584]

@Joseph Kernan thank you for the reply. That makes sense

[@yoshyoish9884]

Selubung mars kaca tebal

[@pulseweld]

they can use the rotor wash to clean the dust off the rover's solar arrays (true story)

[@Cediii4ris]

Perseverance does not have solar panels.

[@superslimanoniem4712]

@@Cediii4ris ahh, you're the dumb comment I was looking for. Please just look at a single picture?

[@heaventhegreat7228]

What if the cameras can’t see the living things on Mars🧐🧐?

[@maybenotkyle9836]

Do what😂😭😭

[@mohandlalam104]

Comment l'anti matière peut se matérialisé ? "Théories fausse "..🤗

[@thegoober8797]

Why not use one of those "UAPs" I keep hearing about?

[@brandoncai4840]

bruh

[@13debasmitbhattacharyaclas21]

now waiting to prove humanity can swim on mars !

[@brandoncai4840]

bruh

[@milkallergy8829]

*happy burmese noises*

[@agedisnuts]

imagine making a comment that a domestic kitten can still find stupid

[@rosinros]

everyone gansta till some idiot crashes the helicopter on the first day

[@baghlani92]

🇺🇸🧡

[@flameboy9034]

Ok

[@Combatwombat-sn7ng]

Isnt this a drone rather than a helicopter?

[@brandoncai4840]

a small helicopter is a drone but shrug

[@ricomotions5416]

its got the mechanical working of a helicopter rather trhen a drone

[@alexsiemers7898]

A drone changes attitude by adjusting the throttle on symmetrical propellers with static blades. Helicopters, as well as Ingenuity, adjust the blade angle of one or two propellers to move around.

[@tonyarichards5430]

Because there are no train tracks?

[@playerfaiz7054]

im surprised no one made a comment about mark rober until now

[@Bigdawgs.]

Op

[@zkaix1064]

HELICOPTER

[@timed99]

Why Nasa made a helicopter for Mars? Do you think this video answers the question ? Or it explains how Nasa made a helicopter for Mars ?

[@brandoncai4840]

they answered

[@ronandoherty3211]

Lezzz go

[@lemomeme3180]

I shouldn't read the comments

[@playingcat5577]

Wew

[@niteeshkumar9175]

why does everyone here have the iq of an apple science😂

[@fly1ngsh33p7]

6:26 Why do they wear _double_ masks?

[@stonecold590]

It's recommended by the CDC. Provides better filtration because it doubles the layers of material that virus-containing respiratory droplets have to travel through before reaching your face and mouth.

[@esvorst]

No one in the design team thought of adding a tiny prop above the solar panel to blow off dust? xD

[@kris348ka8]

It here is a reason it’s not like that. I highly doubt that you have more intellect than all of the people who worked on this and spent millions of dollars.

[@esvorst]

@@kris348ka8 it was not even so serious and I never said I was more intelligent, so chill 😅 It was just because he mentoined it in the end.

[@asphalion8291]

@@esvorst Nah you weren’t joking you’re just dumb.

[@Down915]

@@asphalion8291 lol relax its just a comment

[@asphalion8291]

@@Down915 It's just a comment. Chill

[@potatosenpai9301]

Hi

[@alrighty6898]

Is gravity different on Mars because it’s round while earth is flat?

[@HilmyA.S.]

You are absolutely correct

[@babecat2000]

The earth is not flat get educated.

[@asphalion8291]

Please get a life

[@diobrando9515]

Mars is a sphere not round get it right round and sphere is different

[@rognskogstudios5016]

Norwegians made the helicopter😎🇳🇴

[@sereeres2946]

He lied about not being able to cancel out gravity... bob Lazar said they have it at Area 51 lmaooo

[@davidcornell390]

are you dum

[@justinfrater2426]

Your audio volume is horrible

[@Scotian6444]

Idk... science... would we even know if its a pheromone... wack... in the name of?

[@Taninversed]

What?

[@Scotian6444]

@@Taninversed drunk post. Like lemmings running off a cliff... or a spider that is eaten by its mate... would our brain even let us know the consequences if it was necessary for a species procreation or population control? Ya we are self conscious and aware... but are there some process that our brain leaves us oblivious to...

[@rewireyourself2993]

Sahara dessert i presume aka mars 🤣

[@babecat2000]

Wrong

[@raffyazhar3005]

1

[@Bluesmudge]

And here I am trying to get through daily, normal, Earth life. Also to prove that a can? SMH.

[@ajalleyne45tt]

Early Gang .

[@technicalediting1434]

❤️

[@manojvirupaksha1836]

1st 🐥🐥🐥🐥

[@kenangponco4720]

Fake

[@nadanamsabapathy4699]

Gi bryhh

[@ZiyandoingVids]

Can you pls invite the marvel characters plssss

[@asphalion8291]

Your IQ is as big as the dead snail in your backyard.

[@icerook1560]

DJI is laughing at us

[@anthonyphung9530]

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[@yoshyoish9884]

Tree

[@mattchewsaavedra6600]

join the nasha dishcord

[@asphalion8291]

Stfu

[@RealGracefulGoose]

@@asphalion8291 cord

[@KENKENNIFF]

Should we be giving the Martian this technology ? what happenned to the first directive ? How can we be sure they wont use it on each other to wage wars. Tiny pathetic wars, yes, but wars none the less.

[@Amd107]

Did Martians personally contacted you to tell their plans?

[@KENKENNIFF]

@@Amd107 I have my sources

[@saulgoodman6847]

First

[@technicalediting1434]

❤️

[@saulgoodman6847]

Finally I'm first

[@thejunioryoutuber1290]

Sadly your not first

[@Behzey2fly]

we cant leave earth hence the Firmament

[@kylealexander7024]

Ignore the technology used to get to space in ur hand

[@Behzey2fly]

@@kylealexander7024 you totally ignored my comment lol.... "we cant leave earth hence the Firmament"

[@kirinyardberry1324]

@@Behzey2fly we can and we have

[@kylealexander7024]

@@Behzey2fly u can literally see things weve sent beyond the atmosphere

[@babecat2000]

@@Behzey2fly Get an education fool

[@solucky70]

NASA has built a fan base that believes any BS they can CGI!

[@babecat2000]

Anti science fool.

[@solucky70]

@@babecat2000 Tax spending tool!

[@meowbauk]

first

[@saulgoodman6847]

No

[@RyanJosephLong]

It kind of seems like to me there would be no reason to account for less gravity because it would just fly with more force... But then again I'm not a NASA scientist so good on them for that.

[@Lopsinho]

Gravity means how much an object would weigh. How much downward force its exerting. It would've been far more challenging if the gravity of Mars was the same. The blades would have to spin much faster.

[@luiscolon446]

The draconian puma natively return because manx immunochemically claim amid a waggish responsibility. overconfident, expensive sail

[@dr.strangelove.miguelaleja2825]

FIRST 2

[@minimalist1807]

lol thqt plastic alu thing is unreal and isnt in space at all and will never be...mars is full of storms how they sayin..i belive we cant go there couse there is no meaning at all..

[@jow-ris9355]

Shut the f*ck up redditor

[@DarkTheFailure]

English please? Mars has storms yes, but only happen every year or 2. And it still 1% atmosphere so it isn't that bad

[@minimalist1807]

red planet becomes yellow buahaha

[@babecat2000]

Uneducated much?

[@robertraymond762]

Man, our government is rich, rich, rich.

[@devenford2322]

True, but the amount of money spent on nasa is very less/miniscule. Plus, nasa repays itself with its new tech and engineering.

[@TonyCanones]

@@devenford2322 I would love to see the evidence supporting the statement that “nasa repays itself with its new tech and engineering”. Can you point to it?

[@chrisjong8412]

I wish they would spend it on your health care system. I'm so happy I live in Amsterdam

[@thekidd251]

@@chrisjong8412 hahah America is done for. Australia safer country

[@babecat2000]

@@thekidd251 nope

[@ishuluturk]

It’s a DRONE not a HELICOPTER !

[@amritkaur3187]

Shut up

[@asphalion8291]

Did mommy forget to educate you in homeschool?

[@TheGraveyShow]

Mars aka Greenland

[@babecat2000]

wrong

[@EVRose60]

I thought it was "Hollywood studio" or "Nevada desert"? You people need to get your stories straight!