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Will Curiosity and the Mars 2020 rover be able to communicate with each other via a Mars orbiter?
Curiosity's UHF antenna on sol 2439
Could Curiosity and the Mars 2020 rover communicate with each other via the MRO orbiter ?
And would it have advantages ? (Like: " I just saw a meteorite, and it'...
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For how long could the Mars helicopter Ingenuity keep up with the Perseverance rover if it wanted to?
Wikipedia's Mars Helicopter Ingenuity says:
It could potentially cover a distance of up to 300 metres (980 ft) per flight.
Perseverance is somewhat similar to Curiosity which drove about 22970 ...
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Does the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars have a radio call sign?
This Deep Space Network page lists some of the call signs of various robotic spacecraft. For example, Curiosity is MSL, and Perseverance is ...
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How Ingenuity ensures it does not fly away from the range of connection from Perseverance?
There must be a range after which Ingenuity cannot communicate with Perseverance. I am not sure what that distance is. How Ingenuity ensures it does not fly away out of that distance? If inadvertently ...
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Is it possible to make an Internet of Things device that works locally on Mars?
I know this is a weird question. I can't find a radiation hardened microcontroller (μC) that does Bluetooth Low Energy or even WiFi. Is there any reason this would not work on Mars, if a radiation ...
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Is there anything that could speak 900 MHz ZigBee that could hear Ingenuity helicopter besides the Perseverance rover?
Interest is piqued by What could be strong arguments against Ingenuity following Perseverance at a safe distance when the flight test program has been a success?
Question: Can anything at Mars, or ...
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At the end of the test campaign, could Ingenuity be programmed to fly fully autonomously to the planned sample cache depot location?
From an interview with Tim Canham, Mars Helicopter Operations Lead at JPL in the article How NASA Designed a Helicopter That Could Fly Autonomously on Mars:
It has a sequencing engine on board, and ...
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In their first 100 sols which NASA Mars rover drove the furthest and which one the least?
It seems we've passed the 100 day/sol mark for Perseverance.
Perseverance and Curiosity are comparable in designs but have had significantly different short term goals; Curiosity was the first of it's ...
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Thermal batteries rather than battery-powered heaters for small craft on Mars; how much mass would it add, how much would it replace?
As an example, the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars charges its batteries each sunny day (which is every day except when it isn't) and discharges them substantially each cold night (which is all of them) ...
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Could Ingenuity stay warmer at night by landing on (or near) Perseverance's RTG?
One concern in How long could the Mars helicopter Ingenuity keep up with the Perseverance rover if it wanted to? is that the helicopter must cycle its battery every night to stay warm, and that could ...
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