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The flight of NASA's Ingenuity helicopter is turning harder and harder.



Image I: Artist's impression of the Ingenuity helicopter flying over Mars. 

The helicopter that flies over the Martian hemisphere is a very impressive tool. It can operate in an atmosphere which density is less than 2% of Earth. In so low pressure even the smallest changes mean a lot of things. Today the pressure of the atmosphere of Mars is about 1% of the Earth's atmosphere because winter is coming to that planet. 

And that means the mission of that helicopter is turning more difficult. Soon the pressure is so low, that the rotors cannot rise that helicopter to flight. The same technology that is used in Integuinity can be used also for many other purposes. The high-flying helicopters can fly at 1% of the pressure of the sea level. Can be the next-generation tools for civil and military aviation. 

There is the possibility that the similar helicopters that the Integuinity are will use to rise the rocket which mission is to return the samples from the red planet to Earth to the launch position. And similar helicopters which are a little bit bigger can use to raise small rockets like Pegasus to the high atmosphere and launch them to Earth orbiter. That thing makes it possible to launch rockets without noise. The helicopter can rise to the high atmosphere even from the parking lot. And then it would just drop that rocket which starts its main engine. 




Image II:() Pegasus under its mother plane waiting for the aerial launch.


Also, those high-flying helicopters can operate as surveillance platforms that are equipped with infrared and radar sensors. Those systems can also use things like gamma-cameras and other sensors to find out things like radioactive targets. Those helicopters can hover above a certain point of the ground. And they can follow the pollution, changes in ice and water level. They can offer communication services and replace part of the satellites if somewhere is needed extra-power for the data network. 

Those systems can also follow the growth of the plantations. And they can be big ammo over the battlefield. They can observe aircraft that are flying under them and give warnings about the troops. Also in some visions. Those systems can equip with lasers or some other type of weapons like EMP and neutron bombs. That means they could be the "aerial minefield". If somebody will try to flight across those helicopters, they might detonate their weapons. If the system uses the EMP warhead it can destroy things like drone swarms. 


Image I()https://scitechdaily.com/nasa-ingenuity-helicopter-flying-on-mars-is-getting-harder-and-harder/

Image II:()https://eu.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/space/2018/10/19/pegasus-rocket-headed-cape-canaveral-launch-next-week/1695240002/


()https://visionsoftheaiandfuture.blogspot.com/

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