The helicopter has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801. That is probably more powerful than the Perseverance's cpu" 200 MHz BAE RAD750. I wonder if they could offload compute tasks to the helicopter.
They will not. The helicopter is a side project that gets abandoned after 30 days regardless of outcomes, the rover drives away (presumably out of range)
It’s a technology demonstration. Essentially a throwaway experiment. All they care to prove is whether they can fly on mars. Any extra value they get out of it is a bonus
