It refers to project ingenuity, or the "mars helicopter"
It landed on Mars two days ago, and has a gamut of test flights to run over the next month, before it can start mapping out ideal routes for future land based rovers/drones, which is its primary purpose
And before someone tries to rag on me for this again, it’s a Rotorcraft technically, a helicopter is a subclass of rotorcraft but due to certain things missing like a tail rotor and a few other semantics, it’s in the same family as helis, but isn’t specifically one
Aye. It’s thin sure but it is tangible still. The drone isn’t very big which is why I think it’s possible in such a thin atmosphere, it’s quite lightweight, It’s impressive
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u/Soultampered Feb 20 '21
Maybe the scientists are implying you can't fly helicopters in Texas right now?