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This little helicopter. >> bill: 2020 sounds ambitious. tell us what theyre doing. >> theyre launching a car-sized rover, the 2020 mars rover to the red planet in 2020. theyll send this drone about the size of a softball attach it to the belly pan of this rover and when theyre ready the rover will drop it down and drive off to a safe distance and power it up. it has solar arrays on the rotors. pop up 10 feet or so. go higher and it will never meet the rover again. it will go on its own and take ...