How NASA is Trying to Save the Damaged Ingenuity Helicopter on Mars

In this video, we will explore the fate of the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars, the first aircraft to fly on another planet. We will learn how it got damaged during its last flight, how NASA is trying to assess the damage, and what the future of the helicopter and its mission is. We will also learn why this story is so important and what it means for the exploration of other planets. The Ingenuity helicopter is a remarkable achievement, and a remarkable story. It is a story that shows us the power of ingenuity.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:37 How the Helicopter Got Damaged ?
02:51 How NASA is Trying to Assess the Damage ?
04:52 What the Future of the Helicopter and its Mission is ?
07:04 Outro
07:30 Enjoy
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[@yoda5565]

As I recall, there is a patch of canvas from the Wright Brothers first flyer on that little probe. NASA really gave us "bang for our buck" with this accomplishment. Keep in perspective we didn't even know if we could fly on Mars, let alone do it so prodigiously. Well done.

[@pageljazz]

It's worth trying to salvage it if only to test our ability to do that sort of thing. Much could be learned and applied to later missions.

[@JenniferA886]

Absolutely… I totally agree 👍👍👍

[@synthyawylder3297]

As a UAV (drone) pilot, I can confirm several things about what seemed to have happened to Ingenuity. My UAVs also use a visual camera-based system to help with navigation & obstacle avoidance, & have both a color camera, & a number of lower-resolution black & white cameras, although they also have the benefit of having access to dozens of GPS satellites to aid in control & positioning when farther away from any objects - On Mars, no GPS satellites, or magnetic compass... Relatively featureless surfaces can & will cause confusion with the internal control system, as a result of conflicts between the IMU & what the camera sees, & this can & will likely cause stability & control problems. Of course, here on Earth, there is virtually no signal lag, & a human is available to compensate or to take manual control in any situation in real-time - Ingenuity, being so far from Earth, had no such real-time human control available due to the many minutes of signal lag between Mars, Earth, & back to Mars, & had to rely upon its own internal control systems; as advanced as they are, simply can't compare with a human at direct real-time control. Carbon-fiber composite propeller or rotor blades are incredibly strong for their light weight, but they are also very brittle, & likely even more so, in Mars' relatively colder temperatures, & at the speed of rotation that Ingenuity's rotors had to turn to fly, having them strike anything at all, even for an instant, would result in the damage indicated. Here on Earth, damaged propeller or rotor blades are easily & quickly replaced, but so far away on Mars... not so much! I'm so sorry to hear of Ingenuity's accident, & I've been cheering with every flight & scientific breakthrough accomplishment on Mars! Ingenuity went far above & beyond what was ever designed or expected - certainly a long string of successes which all of us can honor & celebrate! \o/

[@snakeman48]

@synthyawylder3297 excellent read. That little machine preformed remarkable for being so far from earth. This is just the beginning of what man can do another planet.

[@76rjackson]

Ty

[@otpyrcralphpierre1742]

No magnetic compass? Why is that?

[@user-cj1vs7bd3u]

What a challenge !It is beautiful 😊😊😊😊😊😊❤.

[@24tanksalot]

I really hope they can still use the helicopter.

[@vachikyadegarian1403]

I am so sad about Ingenuity ,if it were possible I volunteer to be sent there to repair it.

[@wrightwillingham4462]

I love Ginny. I have cried more 😢 over her accident than I have over the loss of many people. I'm crying right now 😢. I hope one day in the near future we will be able to bring her home so she won't be alone 😢. If there was ever an instrument of ours in space that deserved to be retrieved, Ginny deserves it, by far, hands down 😢. If NASA plans to go pick up those test tubes full of dirt and rock, then they need to figure out a way to go get Ginny 😢. I will be highly disappointed if they don't. I have never been more emotionally attached to a space vehicle (or any vehicle for that matter) than I have (and still am) with Ginny.

[@Narrowgaugefilms]

I like to think that someday, maybe decades from now, a crew of astronauts will arrive on the scene and recover Ingenuity for a display case at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, maybe close to the Wright Flyer. As sad as this End of Mission is, it is important to remember it was in the cards from the first day the mission was even proposed, and if everything had gone according to Plan, it should have happened a couple of years ago.

[@witwisniewski2280]

The greatest aspects of humanity are astonishingly different and alien compared to the worst. How can we, the humans that this project was done on behalf of, thank you for moving our civilization so far forward. Ingenuity is indeed a most appropriate name.

[@user-cj1vs7bd3u]

Awesome❤😊😊😊😊❤.

[@danmurray1143]

"Broken & alone." Wait, that's my story. 😢

[@jennycraig3816]

🤣😪

[@jeffsiegwart]

Great information. Thank you.

[@mal2ksc]

I suppose if they back Percy up to a safe distance, what's the worst that could happen by trying to fly? Ingenuity falls apart? The engineering data might be worth the loss of an artifact for a future museum. Obviously I don't _want_ Ginny to fly apart the next time it spins up, but I honestly think it's an acceptable risk once any data has been offloaded.

[@Carak_Oshama44th]

I’m sure they are brain storming something scientificly useful , their not just going to toss it in the trash and Amazon next day Deliver another lol.

[@johnmanderson2060]

If the rover has the laser instrument, it could maybe symmetricaly cut the damaged blades tips to restore balance, it may degrade flying performance and autonomy, but it is better than nothing.

[@johnelwoodclarke5366]

👍 a great robot

[@Jmjmjmjmjmjmjmjmjmjmjm1]

Maybe instead of a “cleaning event”, they’ll have a “fixing event”.

[@jimh1487]

Interesting

[@danno3497]

I was wondering why there is no navigation sequence and only a couple pictures of the landing site after Ingenuity's 71st flight on their website?

[@musobalawrence1466]

Future designs of mars rovers should consider attaching an AI powered robotic mechanical tool that can easily remove and install blades from the mars helicopters. Material scientists should also design composite material that are sturdy enough to perform comfortably in the low gravity martian environment.

[@scottymoondogjakubin4766]

Hopefully they can save it before the solar arrays dust up !

[@imachavel]

When I think of the limitations the helicopter has to get into on Earth to get into retreating blade stall I think of the advancing and retreating air surpassing that of the capability of the RPMs and the capabilities of the rotor system to where the air flowing advancing and retreating is uneven and you're getting uneven lift distribution and all the properties of Bernoulli's principle are not helping the smooth flow over the rotor to create the high pressure needed to sustain lift. Newton's 3rd law says for every action equal and opposite reaction. Also contributing factors are the helicopter being heavy too high it's too hot it's too humid etc. Then I think of that Mars Ingenuity helicopter with the coaxial rotors and no tail, no NOTAR, no fenstrom, none of that. Most helicopters are limited to somewhere between 130 to 150 knots AirSpeed before you get into retreating blade stall and much less depending on how much weight the helicopter has and additional forms of profile and parasite drag. But this Mars helicopters rotor RPMs are dozens of times beyond what a regular helicopter on Earth performs at. It can handle a lot of advancing and retreating air. Does this mean therefore this Mars Ingenuity helicopter it would have to get to like a thousand miles per hour to get into retreating blade stall? I mean it doesn't weigh very much either. Or is it like the same thing it's limited by a certain amount of air no matter how many rotor RPM's it can handle and it would enter the state of retreating blade stall somewhere below 200 mph the same way it would here on Earth?

[@elizabethmears5816]

Maybe we need to send a Ai rescue team that repairs the rovers

[@jennycraig3816]

I think, that the sand landing is the problem maybe the rover can move it to better place.

[@ahmetmutlu348]

why they dont add spare..or module based systems and switching mechanisms on them... i men they make estreemly complex foldin mechanisms and just dont realise how easy and useful it is to add addon plugan play based replacement aaddons. may be ewen seb based power an drive sstems will do the job ;D

[@claudiocosterni6488]

Did you realize… did you see how many typos you made here? NO? Is a too demanding task for you to re-read your messed up text and correct it before sending it?

[@imensonspionrona2117]

That helicopter ate 1 to many weetbix.

[@SlavTiger]

i think it's worth the risk to continue trying to fly it

[@aloisiorosa3078]

Parece que perdeu sinal devido a explosões solares! Ainda pode dançar um pouco para limpar o painel solar e estudar a duração da bateria e duração de seus materiais além de ainda poder tirar fotos! Tudo é válido!

[@goutvols103]

Please tell me that the photos of the helicopter engineers wearing masks, is a stock photo?

[@dirkpitt5468]

Nothing new here. Retold for the hundredth time with computerized pictures “re-creations”.

[@Ponk_80]

The internet is becoming a waste of time, when we search an answer, we get 99 percent unrelated stuff instead. I’m tired of people just waisting my time instead of getting to and staying on point. I don’t need a background story, side story and the personal opinion of the video maker, I just want my answers and then get on with my life. There are already too many ads on KZbin already that waste my time, I don’t need the content to do the same.

[@claudiozanella256]

It's impossible having it to fly again. Yet some useless rescue work still has scientific relevance.

[@claudiocosterni6488]

It is very unlikely, but if it were possible, using one of the rover's robotic arms, to remove, to cut another piece of the broken propeller, on the opposite side, so as to remove the same weight to balance that propeller, Ingenuity perhaps might have the possibility to take off and flight again, possibly increasing the engine rpm a little bit to compensate for this loss. This is what I think.

[@claudiocosterni6488]

È molto improbabile, ma se fosse possibile, utilizzando uno dei bracci robotici del rover, rimuovere, tagliare un altro pezzo dell'elica rotta, sul lato opposto, in modo da togliere lo stesso peso per bilanciare quell'elica, Ingenuity forse potrebbe avere la possibilità di decollare e volare nuovamente, eventualmente aumentando un po’ i giri del motore per compensare questa perdita. Questo è quello che immagino e penso.

[@claudiozanella256]

@@claudiocosterni6488 No, escluso, faccio aeromodellismo, ho elicotteri radiocomandati e tutto deve essere perfettamente bilanciato, 3, 4 grammi di sbilancio sono già eccessivi.

[@claudiocosterni6488]

@@claudiozanella256 Non escluderlo categoricamente. Ho decine di droni DJI e Autel, li ho anche modificati [hardware e firmware] e sono pure un costruttore di droni, conosco piuttosto bene l'argomento, non molto dissimile dagli elicotteri. Ma questo c'entra poco. Per favore rileggi e comprendi, avevo scritto bilanciare quell'elica. Non ho scritto di poter accettare uno sbilancio, non ho scritto di farlo volare così com'è con alcuni grammi di sbilancio. Comunque sia, ho appena visto altre immagini recenti e risulta che entrambe le eliche hanno ciascuna entrambe le estremità mozzate, quindi tutte le quattro estremità sono danneggiate. Non è danneggiata soltanto l'estremità di un'elica, come sembrava essere vedendone l'ombra ed un suo frammento caduto sulla sabbia, nella prima immagine arrivata giorni fa. Perciò anche se siamo davvero vicini all'impossibile, gli ingegneri potrebbero fare altri controlli, facendole ruotare a bassissimi giri per capire (direttamente o indirettamente con i sensori disponibili a bordo) di quanto si sono sbilanciate e se con l'hardware lì presente - leggi Perseverance - siano in grado di trovare eventualmente una soluzione molto ingegnosa che lo possa rendere nuovamente operativo, nel caso verosimile che allo stato attuale non fosse possibile volare normalmente. Dei rotori da 120 cm, io stimo che il 95%, o più della loro lunghezza, è rimasto integro.

[@luisramos6139]

Great invention but unfortunately not perfect. It's rather sad 😢😭 that's it's all alone on a sand dune waiting to get buried by sandstorms cuz nobody can go to fix it.

[@Carak_Oshama44th]

Easy peasy Just ring my Mrs Apparently she knows how to get anywhere And Fix anything 🙄🙄🙂🙃🙂

[@richardmercer2337]

Multiple grammar errors and/or misreadings in the first few minutes. Strangely no further problems thereafter!

[@NicholasColdingDK]

No. The rover cannot move Ingenuity.

[@jakelynbrook]

If it cannot be fixed maybe 🤔 it can be moved to a safe place, where it can receive enough sun to recharge its batteries and assist with scientific experiments 🔬 😮😢😅 8:32

[@mal2ksc]

It _is_ an experiment. It's not carrying any instruments for carrying out experiments, and technically it's not carrying any science instruments at all, but of course navigation and engineering cameras can still be quite useful as experimental data even if not optimized for that purpose. That's why it has turned out to be a pretty good forward scout even though that was never in the job description.

[@jakelynbrook]

@@mal2ksc so in sun and substance, it can be said with a high level of confidence NASA got its monies worth from this instrument!🤔🧐👍✅🤫😎🇺🇸

[@steffanjansenvanvuuren3257]

"Possibly" means nothing...

[@Ponk_80]

I clicked the video for the answer to the title, but was instead given a ton of unrelated information instead, seriously if you want people to like and subscribe, maybe do a better job at staying on topic.

[@bassw1758]

That your tax dollars being squandered.... on earth.