{"id":218941,"date":"2021-04-04T22:47:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T19:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nasa-drone-lands-on-mars-for-first-flight-on-another-world\/"},"modified":"2021-04-04T22:47:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T19:47:04","slug":"nasa-drone-lands-on-mars-for-first-flight-on-another-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nasa-drone-lands-on-mars-for-first-flight-on-another-world\/","title":{"rendered":"#NASA drone lands on Mars for first flight on another world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#NASA drone lands on Mars for first flight on another world<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It\u2019s one giant leap for drone-kind.<\/p>\n<p>The helicopter drone set to make humankind\u2019s first flight on another planet has touched down on Mars, NASA said.<\/p>\n<p>Photos show the four-legged contraption parked on the red planet\u2019s surface \u2014 after hitching a ride there on NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover \u2014 before it  takes off on or around April 1 for the first of as many as five 90-second flights, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/4\/4\/22366887\/nasa-mars-rover-perseverance-ingenuity-helicopter-drops-off\">the Verge reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The extra-light drone \u2014 named Ingenuity \u2014 will spend the days before its maiden voyage collecting energy from the sun to maintain operation during frigid Mars nights, NASA said <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-prepares-for-first-flight\">in a statement<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<p>When the chopper is ready to deploy, NASA\u2019s team in California will take about six Mars days \u2014 just four Earth hours \u2014 to deploy the drone to elevate at a rate of three feet per second. <\/p>\n<p>The drone takes eight hours to communicate its actions with its Earth-bound architects.<\/p>\n<p>The craft will be able to hover about 10 feet aboveground for 30 seconds, NASA said.<\/p>\n<p>If successful, the Ingenuity with be the first human-powered flight on a planet other than Earth. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"the Ingenuity Helicopter after it was detached from NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, 04 April 2021\" class=\"wp-image-17748140 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/SPACE_MARS_NASA_PERSEVERANCE_1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/SPACE_MARS_NASA_PERSEVERANCE_1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/SPACE_MARS_NASA_PERSEVERANCE_1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/SPACE_MARS_NASA_PERSEVERANCE_1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/SPACE_MARS_NASA_PERSEVERANCE_1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The Ingenuity Helicopter after it was detached from NASA\u2019s Perseverance Mars rover on April 4, 2021.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">EPA\/NASA\/JPL-Caltech HANDOUT<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NASA officials hope the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> will allow future researchers and space explorers a better view of the planet\u2019s geography.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures on the planet can drop as low as -130\u00b0 Fahrenheit, according to project chief engineer Bob Balaram. 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The helicopter drone set to make humankind\u2019s first flight on another planet has touched down on Mars, NASA said. Photos show the four-legged contraption parked on the red planet\u2019s surface \u2014 after hitching a ride there on NASA\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/SPACE_MARS_NASA_PERSEVERANCE_2.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[100714,70734,5072,5026,5019],"class_list":["post-218941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-4-4-21","tag-drones","tag-mars","tag-nasa","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}