Ingenuity helicopter first Flight

[biggunsbob]

If you can find better videos by all means post them, and thanks a!
Very cool !


https://youtu.be/g8K-gqzOR2k

 

[zyxt9]

Pretty impressive without a doubt.

I read the altitude record for a helicopter on Earth is just under 50k ft whereas the Martian atmosphere is roughly equal to Earth's upper atmosphere around 100k ft. I hope they try a similar system in Earth's upper atmosphere to see what altitude can be reached with it, along with a few instruments to make direct measurements of the upper atmosphere. Less wasteful than using helium-filled balloons, planes, rockets, etc.