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two years ago Ingenuity proved that we

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could do the impossible we can fly on

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Mars

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let's talk about what's next

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we're at the surface robotics lab

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testing is being done on future Mars

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helicopters Teddy sonatos is here with

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us today to talk about the helicopter

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that started it all Ingenuity Teddy

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what's the latest Ingenuity is doing

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great are babies still flying on the

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surface of Mars after two Earth years

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one Mars year of total flight racked up

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10 kilometers or 6.2 miles of total

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distance flown our rotor system our

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little cell phone processor on board our

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off-the-shelf Lithium-ion batteries are

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all doing fantastic one area that we're

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looking very closely at is our solar

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panel you can imagine after two years of

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flying on the surface of Mars you'll get

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some dust on top but we still have an

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ample margin and ample energy to keep up

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our flight operations and the extended

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mission of continue to Scout and push

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the flight envelope of what's possible

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the testing being done in this room is

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part of the next helicopter mission of

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Mars called the sample recovery

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helicopters the goal is to be a backup

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to get these samples back to Earth but

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simply perseverance collects the sample

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tubes the sample return Lander will

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retrieve those samples directly from

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perseverance and then there's a rocket

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inside of that land that's actually

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going to send those samples back to

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Earth

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as a backup to getting those sample

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tubes from Mars back to the Lander we're

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designing the next generation of

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helicopters to not only be able to pick

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up and carry a sample tube but also

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drive around on the surface are there

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any other ways Ingenuity is influencing

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future Mars exploration we're looking at

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a research concept called Mars science

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helicopter it's a hexacopter so six

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rotors in a ring around a central

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structure

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about the size of the Rover and you can

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imagine in the future you'll have fleets

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of these water science helicopters

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flying around bringing important

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payloads to areas of Mars that we've

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never been able to access before

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what's next for Ingenuity so we're

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trying to fly faster

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when I fly higher

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we've added new offer capability

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detect Landing sites airborne those

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sorts of winds are coming from the

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surface of Mars directly into the design

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of the new sample recovery helicopters

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and she's done a fantastic job surpassed

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any sort of metric of success that

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anyone on the team could have ever

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imagined for this little tiny four pound

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spacecraft

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