Mars Helicopter: Ingenuity

Ingenuity, nicknamed Ginny, is an autonomous NASA helicopter that operated on Mars from 2021 to 2024 as part of the Mars 2020 mission. Ingenuity made its first flight on 19 April 2021, demonstrating that flight is possible in the extremely thin atmosphere of Mars, and becoming the first aircraft to conduct a powered and controlled extraterrestrial flight.

Ingenuity was delivered to Mars on 18 February 2021, attached to the underside of the Perseverance rover, which landed at Octavia E. Butler Landing near the western rim of the 45 km-wide (28 mi) Jezero crater. Because radio signals take several minutes to travel between Earth and Mars, it could not be manually controlled in real time, and instead autonomously flew flight plans sent to it by JPL.

- Wikipedia

About

This is a tiny model. You can scale it up and it will probably work well, but i wanted to make this a science and shrink it to match the other Rover models better.
Mars Rover: Perseverance
Mars Rover: Curiosity
Rovers scale: 1:42
Ingenuity scale: 1:22

 Assembly Procedure:

• Bending Rotors while still warm

• Press in Legs (with an angle is easier, they be tight!)

• Rotor 1

• spacer

• Rotor 2 upside down

• Solar panel is Keyed!

Voila! Tiny Ingenuity done. Rotors should be fully articulating.

https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/#Anatomy

Educational & Credits

* [NASA Mars 2020 Mission Page]
* [JPL Perseverance Facts]

Partners

Official Museum Partner: Jan Paagman Sterrenwacht (Asten, Netherlands).
Sales of this model at the observatory shop directly support their 
educational facilities and astronomy programs.

We support STEM education! 
Are you a museum, planetarium, or educational institution looking to use or sell this model? 
Please contact me at manu[at]enso.berlin.

Build the Fleet:
Mars Rover: Perseverance
Mars Rover: Curiosity

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Based on public domain data from NASA/JPL-Caltech. Modeled by Manu, Enso Berlin.

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