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Watch NASA's new Mars helicopter rotor break the speed of sound (video)

NASA is testing the limits of future Mars aircraft as it works to develop a next-generation fleet of helicopters that will ...

NASA’s Mars helicopter blades broke the sound barrier without disintegrating, and JPL may have unlocked the next leap in alien flight

NASA engineers spun next-gen Mars helicopter blades past Mach 1 without shattering them. See how JPL unlocked the future of ...
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NASA pushes Mars helicopter rotors past the speed of sound for the first time ever

Rotors spin 10 times faster than modern helicopters.
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NASA pushes next-gen Mars helicopter rotors through the sound barrier

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, have demonstrated that the blades of their ...

NASA's next Mars helicopters tested beyond the speed of sound

NASA has successfully tested an improved flight system designed for Mars' hostile environment. The new technology can be ...
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NASA’s nuclear mission to Mars isn’t as crazy as it sounds

When NASA announced a new Mars helicopter mission called Skyfall last week, the immediate response from most scientists had little to do with the ambitious plan to launch tiny, robotic aircraft to the ...
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Mars rover records 'snap' sounds of electric sparks in twisters. Listen

NASA's Perseverance rover has detected electrical sparks within dust devils on Mars for the first time. The rover's SuperCam instrument recorded dozens of audio clips of the discharges and their ...
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NASA's Next-Gen Mars Helicopter Rotors Have Broken The Sound Barrier in Tests

A rendering of the mid-air deployment of one of the SkyFall copters. (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/AeroVironment, Inc.) ...