{"id":121970,"date":"2021-04-26T02:23:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T09:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-flew-faster-and-farther-than-ever-before-in-its-third-aerial-adventure-over-mars"},"modified":"2021-04-26T02:23:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T09:23:03","slug":"nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-flew-faster-and-farther-than-ever-before-in-its-third-aerial-adventure-over-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-flew-faster-and-farther-than-ever-before-in-its-third-aerial-adventure-over-mars","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Ingenuity helicopter flew faster and farther than ever before in its third aerial adventure over Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-flew-faster-and-farther-than-ever-before-in-its-third-aerial-adventure-over-mars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s flight likely pushed the helicopter to its farthest distance yet: around 330 feet. Ingenuity has another two flights ahead.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The helicopter made spaceflight history last Monday when it lifted off Mars and rose 10 feet above the planet\u2019s surface. Never before had a spacecraft conducted a controlled, powered flight on another planet.<\/p>\n<p>Then on Thursday, Ingenuity flew even higher \u2014 16 feet \u2014 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nasa-ingenuity-helicopter-second-mars-flight-2021-4\">moved sideways<\/a> for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s flight was Ingenuity\u2019s most daring excursion to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday\u2019s flight likely pushed the helicopter to its farthest distance yet: around 330 feet. Ingenuity has another two flights ahead. The helicopter made spaceflight history last Monday when it lifted off Mars and rose 10 feet above the planet\u2019s surface. Never before had a spacecraft conducted a controlled, powered flight on another planet. Then on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121970","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=121970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}