Nice coincidence... I see #XKCD comic was also thinking today about #helicopter flight on other planets. XKCD #3322 "Dragonfly" makes a checklist of where helicopters have been flown (Earth 90 years & Mars 5 years), what's planned (#NASADragonfly planned to launch in 2028 to Titan), and what may be feasible. Though it gets incredibly more difficult adding each one to the list. https://xkcd.com/3322/ #aviation #avgeek #spacegeek #NASA #Titan #Mars #MarsHelicopter #space #humor #humour
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On a lark, I checked what would happen when asking the Great Circle Mapper for a route from KPDX (Portland Int'l Airport, near home) to JZRO (Wright Brothers Field at Jezero Crater on Mars, given an ICAO airport code for NASA's Mars Helicopter experiment). The site correctly gave me an error "mixed bodies". Translated: not on the same planet. 😀
http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=kpdx-jzro
#aviation #avgeek #spacegeek #Mars