{"id":121207,"date":"2021-04-03T22:22:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T05:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/perseverance-drops-ingenuity-helicopter-on-mars-first-pics"},"modified":"2021-04-03T22:22:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T05:22:38","slug":"perseverance-drops-ingenuity-helicopter-on-mars-first-pics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/perseverance-drops-ingenuity-helicopter-on-mars-first-pics","title":{"rendered":"Perseverance drops Ingenuity helicopter on Mars! First Pics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E3ALZjxTZ7w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Ingenuity helicopter has touched down on the surface of the red planet. NASA confirmed that it was successfully deployed on April 3, 2021. Full Story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-touches-down-martian-surface\">https:\/\/www.space.com\/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-touches-down-martian-surface<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch NASA\u2019s Mars helicopter unfold like a butterfly: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/mars-helicopter-unfolds-legs-perseverance-rover-video\">https:\/\/www.space.com\/mars-helicopter-unfolds-legs-perseverance-rover-video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\">Space.com<\/a> | imagery &amp; audio courtesy: NASA\/JPL-Caltech | produced &amp; edited by Steve Spaleta (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/stevespaleta\">http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/stevespaleta<\/a>) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ingenuity helicopter has touched down on the surface of the red planet. NASA confirmed that it was successfully deployed on April 3, 2021. Full Story: https:\/\/www.space.com\/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-touches-down-martian-surface. Watch NASA\u2019s Mars helicopter unfold like a butterfly: https:\/\/www.space.com\/mars-helicopter-unfolds-legs-perseverance-rover-video. Credit: Space.com | imagery &amp; audio courtesy: NASA\/JPL-Caltech | produced &amp; edited by Steve Spaleta (http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/stevespaleta)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}