WIP video about NASA's Mars Ingenuity Helicopter - Kindly Requesting Feedback
Added 2025-03-18 00:12:44 +0000 UTCComing soon: a video about NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter and its mission on Mars!
We’d love to hear your feedback and suggestions as we wrap up this video! Animations are still in progress and placeholders are used for Derek talking to the camera.
Producer Henry has also recorded some temporary lines of voiceover, so you'll hear his voice mixed in where Derek's will eventually be.
Thanks everyone!
Comments
Change further to farther: “…As Mars gets further from the Sun…” change to “…As Mars gets farther from the Sun…”
Stephen C
2025-04-29 20:08:01 +0000 UTCThe history of ingenuity and a tiny doubted helicopter to an amazing future its amazing. The explanation is great.
Sanome
2025-03-20 02:54:59 +0000 UTCNice work.
Cameron Hicks
2025-03-19 07:20:22 +0000 UTCI love this mission and this video. I currently include your other Ingenuity video in my online Astronomy classes (community colleges of New Hampshire) for the unit about Terrestrial Planets. I really appreciate your hard work and am proud to be a patreon sponsor of your channel. The high resolution graphics make a huge difference!
meg noah
2025-03-19 00:22:46 +0000 UTCAs Arnie Schwarzenegger would say in the most to dramatic fashion: "Get to the CHOPPER"
Dan_in_SD
2025-03-18 22:06:10 +0000 UTCI have an A&P license, and have been in many helicopters. It is not a mystery to me, I thought it might be a mystery to some of the viewers. Sorry if it sounded like I wanted an explanation.
Kat Seibert
2025-03-18 20:46:51 +0000 UTCI like this. It feels like bookends ... video from 6 years ago as the preview and this one as the debrief. Wouldn't it be neat to tell past-Derek that his excitement, albeit high, wasn't high enough. Gregor maybe has a point about the drama level. But a little adventure excitement about science is good thing as NASA is facing deep cuts and can benefit from the PR. The bit near the end, with the practical test of the jet pack, was a bit disorienting until I realized that the test stand was upside down. A mid-air delivery platform for the helicopter sounds unusual. I know this video was primarily about Ingenuity, but I'd like to understand more. Instead of the test stand practical test video, I'd rather see an animation of how that's supposed to work. Plus hear a discussion on why a mid-air launch is preferred over just initially setting down on the surface before taking a flight. What's the value? What's the risk profile?
Kimberly Green
2025-03-18 18:29:29 +0000 UTCThat one is a long-established issue, with no mystery to it. If a helicopter doesn't have either (1) a tail boom to generate a counter-torque, or (2) two counterrotating blades, it will spin in the direction opposite the rotation of its rotor because of air resistance to the blades. This is why all helicopters on Earth, without exception, have one of those two solutions to the spin problem.
Mordecai Glicksman
2025-03-18 16:35:20 +0000 UTCGreat story and a nice video overall, I only have minor comments: 8.17-8.27: A rather lame martian dust storm animation, I hope this is not the final version. 14.39: This is not how you write a = kx/m. In markdown math notations: $$ a = \frac{k x}{m} $$. 19.44: You just repeat the video of landing shown at 7.36, while this is a different event. But maybe it's OK, since you say it is similar to the first emergency landing.
Sergey
2025-03-18 07:53:32 +0000 UTCMusic and voiceover is too bombastic, not only in the beginning. Expressions such as "they brace for impact" (prior to the first dust storm) are not up to what should be Veritasium's scientific standards. Either explain what measures were taken that were not just sitting still or say "they wait for the storm". 12:28 Explain HBS (?) 14:29 Shift the fraction up to center vertically on the equals character 22:50 The snapping off at the reinforcement point CGI shows the entire blade breaking off . You have just talked about the tip 1/3 of the blade breaking off. Which is it?
Gregor Shapiro
2025-03-18 05:35:26 +0000 UTCIT is a sad day in the technology world when some one is persecuted for their theory gravity and every one just continues on like nothing is wrong because you are are afraid your Google overlords with cast you out into the wilderness and try to silence you Good luck.
William Cawley
2025-03-18 04:04:13 +0000 UTCYou Tube has banned me for my theories of gravity. https://x.com/William54656169
William Cawley
2025-03-18 03:20:33 +0000 UTCDefinitely need more about CHOPPER. I hope we get to see that thing fly through a dust storm one sol (for science.)
L
2025-03-18 02:56:52 +0000 UTCGreat video. It makes you proud of NASA & the scientists in the video. Anticipating the next version on Mars is thrilling.
Dave Muth
2025-03-18 02:37:23 +0000 UTCGood story, but feels different than your usual material and I'm not sure how to think of it. There's very little in the way of physics lessons, history, and the engineering problems are not explored in much detail. It's more story focused, and between the music and the scripting feels its trying to take the audience along with the disappointments and the excitement of the program than your usual science content. Maybe a title would put it perspective. What is the main purpose of the video? - How to fly without (much) air? - Finding off-the-shelf alternatives to special made but very expensive hardware? SpaceX did a lot of that when they started out. - Believing in yourself? - Ingenuity: A NASA Story? - The little rover that could?
chromicacid
2025-03-18 02:13:31 +0000 UTC@19:18 editing cut is little rough, sounds like the engineering was almost finishing up his sentence @22:51 animation show an entire blade coming off, not snapping at the failure point
chromicacid
2025-03-18 02:10:37 +0000 UTCVery nice, you might also touch on why they use 2 counter rotating blades.
Kat Seibert
2025-03-18 00:59:40 +0000 UTC
