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Latest comment: 2 years ago by Cherurbino in topic Earlier date of publication
Earlier date of publication
editAlthough PIA24729 dates the upload of this image July 14, 2021, the actual priority of this concept and the very design dates back to 2020 and even earlier.
See, among others, on page 5 of the 'Mars Science Helicopter: Conceptual Design of the Next Generation of Mars Rotorcraft' by Shannah Withrow-Maser, Wayne Johnson, Larry Young, Witold Koning, Winnie Kuang, Carlos Malpica from Ames Research Center and J. Balaram and Theodore Tzanetos from JPL/CalTech (2020)