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by londons_explore 1833 days ago
Put tape over the downward facing camera on almost any quadcopter and you'll soon find out why...

It turns out sideways drift accumulates very quickly - and so quickly that unless you are a very practiced drone operator its very hard to compensate for by hand.

GPS compensates somewhat, but obviously that isn't available on mars (or indoors).