NASA is exploring a massive, six-rotor helicopter concept called 'Chopper' to follow up its groundbreaking Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. The Chopper, potentially the size of an SUV, could carry payloads up to 11 pounds and travel up to 1.9 miles per Mars day, allowing for exploration of larger swathes of the Martian terrain. While still in early design stages, the Chopper aims to surpass Ingenuity's achievements, venturing into inaccessible areas and pushing the boundaries of Martian exploration.
of an enormous Mars Chopper concept, a proposed follow-up to the space agency's groundbreaking Ingenuity Mars Helicopter .
In other words, the Chopper could pick up right where Ingenuity left off. Its much smaller ancestor sent its final transmission back to Earth in April, bookending an astounding proof-of-concept mission.to take flight on a different planet in 2021, completed 72 flights in just under three years, which was an astonishing achievement, given that it was designed to fly only five times over 30 Mars days.
In particular, the Chopper could go where rovers can't, allowing scientists to get an unprecedented glimpse of inaccessible areas of the Red Planet.
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