What aircraft is best suited for Mars: planes, helicopters or blimps?

planes, as blimps lack sufficient atmospheric pressure to fly and thus have a very hard time being "less dense" than the barely existant atmosphere, and helos suck all around.

>>9115935
I should've used the word airship, not blimp.
> have a very hard time being "less dense" than the barely existant atmosphere
What if there is vacuum inside?

>>9115950
>crunch

With a CO2 atmosphere, a martian airship could safely use hydrogen for lifting gas. This migjt mean airships would be the most effective aircraft on mars, but the 200mph winds might prove insurmountable.

The martian surface pressure is equivelent to earths atmospherd at 100,000 feet, and we have planes that can do that.... but they have to fly ridiculously fast to stay in the air. So landing could turn out to be a real problem.

With gravity at one third that of earth, we might discover completely different economies of flight that no one has thought of yet.


I think the only way to find out is to try all the things and see how well they work in practice.

>>9115935
>no atmosphere
>planes
are you dumb

>>9115995
Mars has an atmosphere, albeit a thin one

>>9115931
We need to send birds to mars and see what shape they evolve into.