>>11470104Yes, unfortunately.
But I would go with pressurized air and compressor on the landing platform, it's possible to fit a hose there...
And actually with electric acceleration of outgoing air, it could make more efficient vehicle. I know there's no reason to go fast, but there's a reason for staying long in the air...
Actually pressurized air won't really weight a lot as particle to be pushed against, and ions can be propelled just by battery without anything additional.
It can be really light battery and additional solar cells are unecessary wight if it has rover as landing platform.
Wireless charging and being refilled from compressor on the landing.
While being really light, like just a camera and common pressure/temp senzors + accellerator + battery, it can actually be really small or big, it depends, but lighter better, small battery... 10000V can decharge a lot, but it can literally be paper weighted too, even with light air batteries, maybe just one big air chamber that witholds electricall charge in that expelled air and diode, so that air chamber and pressure chamber is same chamber.
Just one big capacitator that slowly decharges as battery, I guess not battery, but well isolated piece of metal, being pressurized by ions can carry a lot of electrons, maybe even more than a battery, if you use.
Maybe combination of capacitator, battery and hydrogen baloo.
Basically hydrogen ballo can make it having low mass, but large area, therefore it would be best used with low wind... And rover would be more heavy so hydrogen ballo won't help it.
Actually increasing temperature and lowering it by pizeoelectrics, of hydrogen, in well made balloo couldn't possibly make it that it would be enough.
Helicopter? What do you want? Dexterity on mars exploration.
But it's nice anyway.
Atleast releasing meteorlogical baloos to see how wind works there.
Maybe some mission with just landed temperature which would measure CO2 PPM, it can varry.
