{"id":406793,"date":"2021-03-24T12:01:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T06:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=406793"},"modified":"2021-03-24T12:47:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T07:17:57","slug":"get-ready-for-the-first-flight-of-nasas-mars-helicopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/get-ready-for-the-first-flight-of-nasas-mars-helicopter\/","title":{"rendered":"Get ready for the first flight of NASA\u2019s Mars helicopter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before heading off to search for signs of long ago Martian microbes, NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover will first undertake what may be the most technologically exciting part of its mission: flying a helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>Packed under the belly of Perseverance, a car-size robotic vehicle that landed on Mars last month, is Ingenuity, a 4-pound minihelicopter intended to demonstrate that flying on another planet is possible.<\/p>\n<p>NASA officials announced on Tuesday that they had selected the site for this demonstration of extraterrestrial hovering \u2014 just north of where it landed. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat area naturally needs to be flat,\u201d Havard Grip, the NASA engineer who serves as the chief pilot for Ingenuity\u2019s flights, said during a news conference Tuesday, \u201cand it needs to have few obstacles \u2014 rocks and the like \u2014 that could pose a danger to the helicopter on landing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before heading off to search for signs of long ago Martian microbes, NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover will first undertake what may be the most technologically exciting part of its mission: flying a helicopter. Packed under the belly of Perseverance, a car-size robotic vehicle that landed on Mars last month, is Ingenuity, a 4-pound minihelicopter intended to demonstrate that flying on another planet is possible. NASA officials announced on Tuesday that they had selected the site for this demonstration of extraterrestrial hovering \u2014 just north of where it landed. \u201cThat area naturally needs to be flat,\u201d Havard Grip, the NASA engineer who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}