Working, "Jet Propulsion Laboratory" of the Department of Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to test the type of helicopter pilot driving without a self to be used in future missions to Mars.
Faces spacecraft roaming (Rover) great difficulties in dealing with the Mars surface bumpy, although it is equipped with a tremendous amount of ground data; The surface of Mars is flat, and make hills and valleys to explore its surface difficult issue, hence the idea of NASA's Laboratory for the development of "Martian helicopter" .
This helicopter drone can tripled the amount of space that can be vehicles roaming cut in a single day of the Mars -ofaqa to Nassa- where can it fly in front of the rover when visibility is obscured by, and sent to the engineers on the ground sound data for planning the path of the rover .
They can also use the rover team images captured by helicopter to select certain sites for further study, giving them closer than that provided by the orbital probe, which roams around Mars Pkamerth, which is about 241 kilometers from the surface option.
Currently being prototypes of Mars helicopter test, and the project was put on the helicopter to add complementary to future missions roaming vehicles, so even when subject to approval, there will be sent in the near future because of the need for a lot of development up to that time.
It features a thin Martian air cover and attractive weaker compared to the planet, and the harshness of his environment means that any vehicle drone must be engineered to enjoy sufficient durability to withstand the harsh conditions of Mars, and at the same time remain light enough to fly.
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