Mars Ingenuity Mini-Helicopter... in Blender

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Since the Mars Perseverance thing has been in the news lately, I thought this was relevant. There’ve been a couple articles talking about how the little mini-helicopter on the Perseverance rover (named Ingenuity) runs Linux. That’s super cool… but more relevant to our interests here, some folks noticed that NASA’s 3D Resources page has Ingenuity as a .blend file. You can pull the ZIP from there or follow a link to the model on their GitHub page.

It’s just nice to know that Blender gets used in all kinds of interesting places. :slight_smile:

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That is awesome, Blender a 3D tool for NASA, their art director uses Blender and he is also the modeler for NASA.

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they are using it for a while, i saw some older files were created with blender 2.6x

there are few models with .blend files https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/search/blend/model

anyway:

My Ingeniuty
This is mine Ingenuity created with Blender for a game Rover Mechanic Simulator:

Ingenuity_R5
Ingenuity_R53840×2160 480 KB

And i did use their model as part of references :slight_smile:

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