Reply to post: Re: It's a tough one at 1/160 Earth sea level pressure.

NASA will send tiny helicopter to Mars

Sgt_Oddball

Re: It's a tough one at 1/160 Earth sea level pressure.

You don't need the strength to support the weight of the whole shebang but to stop it failing due to to angular momentum caused by swinging bits around at high speed. Newtonian physics still applies on other worlds last I checked.

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