NASA Has Unveiled The First-Ever Helicopter to Fly Above Another Planet

NASA Has Unveiled The First-Ever Helicopter to Fly Above Another Planet

“NASA announced this afternoon that it plans to launch a tiny, four-pound, autonomous helicopter along with its 2020 rover mission. And if you think this sounds relatively cool, well: you’re right.

The experimental, softball-sized drone would be the first airborne vehicle to fly around within Mars’s atmosphere other than the landers that have delivered other, ground-based rovers. (At least the first vehicle that we know of.)

In order to design a flying vehicle that would actually work on another planet, NASA scientists faced a number of challenges…”

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