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Video that you folks have posted about the mission we ll link to it from this week s show page at planetary dot org slash radio there is this great animation that shows the Mars helicopter doing that stuff across the Red Planet simulated of course then one of your You Tube viewers made the comment that it looked to him like a Mars Kito which I thought was pretty cute. And not far off and less than 2 kilograms or about 4 pounds it s a pretty small little device isn t it I mean and it may fatally resemble some drones and small robotic helicopters here on Earth but I bet it s a it s a lot tougher a lot more is going into this one yes it s much tougher because the atmosphere of Mars it extremely thin compared to the air density and. It s less than one percent so the vehicle has to be very light you know in of course be able to sing very fast so that s why we say you know if you re going to have a start up in a Mars helicopter make it really light and make sure it can spin really fast. And ....

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