Hi everyone, uh, thanks for joining today. My name is Teddy Tzanetos. I'm on the Mars helicopter team
at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and today we're going to color in the Mars helicopter
Ingenuity. So you should all have already downloaded your coloring uh sheet here. So
here we have Ingenuity, Mars helicopter, and then Perseverance uh you see in the background here. Um
so this is a what we'll see on the surface uh a couple months from now after we arrive and after
Perseverance drops off Ingenuity and we'll be doing our first flight. So let's get started.
Got my crayons. Uh feel free to use watercolor, colored pencils, uh whatever you guys like.
Um so as with most things on Mars we go with some red
to match the surface of the planet. So Mars helicopter's gonna be our first flight on
Mars. We're very excited about it. Mars helicopter... you guys might have some toys
at home that look pretty similar to Ingenuity. It's a coaxial helicopter, so it has two blades
that you can see here. Two blades that spin opposite to each other. They spin very very fast
because the air is very very thin at Mars. It's one percent Earth's density, so it needs to spin
very very fast to get over that thin atmosphere and produce enough lift to get up off the surface.
Now we have two rotors here two sets of blades. Um I like blue,
so I'm gonna color in one of them blue... that. And the other one let's go with green.
So Mars helicopter weighs uh just about four pounds. Very very light. Uh it needs to be
that light because of the low density. Um the gravity is less on Mars. It's about one-third
Earth's gravity, so you could jump a little higher than you could here on the ground.
Um but it's still uh it's still there it's still something that you need to fight against.
And that's why it's so challenging to send something to Mars to fly for the first time ever.
Let's get some other colors here.
Ingenuity's mission on Mars will only last 30 days. Perseverance has a lot of cool and exciting
science that it needs to do. Perseverance will try and find very cool and exciting sites to go to,
drive to pick up some samples for future uh future collection. But Ingenuity's mission, our mission,
is to go to Mars and prove that we can fly, and for that we will only need 30 days. One month.
One month in which to knock out five flights. Each flight 90 seconds, very quick.
Okay.
Alright so now that we got our background colored in here, right, let's talk about let's talk about
our baby here Ingenuity. So there's four legs um those are what help us land. The two rotor
systems. And up here maybe you guys can guess. That's our solar panel. That's how Ingenuity stays
charged or recharges itself every day. Very very important part of most space missions and
and that's no different for Ingenuity. We got to keep track of our energy budget. It's very
important to do budgeting in space. Let's color that one. I'm going to go with purple.
And then at the bottom here, this box, that is our fuselage. That's what contains
all of the electronics, the components, the batteries, uh, the brains of Mars helicopter.
So let's go with something...
go with a robin's egg blue.
We don't currently have blue skies on the surface
of Mars. Maybe one day though. So this is a hopeful drawing.
And that boys and girls is our Mars helicopter. Hope you guys cheer us
on in a couple of months when we fly for the first time. Thank you for your time.