{"id":122858,"date":"2021-05-22T02:16:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T09:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/there-are-no-shortcuts-when-you-build-a-drone-destined-for-mars"},"modified":"2021-05-22T02:16:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T09:16:43","slug":"there-are-no-shortcuts-when-you-build-a-drone-destined-for-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/there-are-no-shortcuts-when-you-build-a-drone-destined-for-mars","title":{"rendered":"There are no shortcuts when you build a drone destined for Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/there-are-no-shortcuts-when-you-build-a-drone-destined-for-mars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever, never ask me for a shortcut.\u201d her mom said while she was growing up.<\/p>\n<p>MiMi Aung (born 1968) is a Burmese \ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddf2 American engineer and project manager at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).<\/p>\n<p>She is the lead engineer on the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity, the first extraterrestrial aircraft which landed on Mars today.<\/p>\n<p>She was inspired by her mother to study science, maths and engineering. Her mother was the first woman in Myanmar to get a PhD in mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>She tested the technology she and her colleagues developed for seven years at NASA.<\/p>\n<p>Mars\u2019 atmosphere is a lot thinner than Earth\u2019s. This means to keep the helicopter in the air, the blades must spin very fast and it can\u2019t weigh more than 2 kilograms.<\/p>\n<p>Ingenuity\u2019s mission on Mars is to help Perseverance find the best routes around Mars.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/there-are-no-shortcuts-when-you-build-a-drone-destined-for-mars\">Continue reading \u201cThere are no shortcuts when you build a drone destined for Mars\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNever, never ask me for a shortcut.\u201d her mom said while she was growing up. MiMi Aung (born 1968) is a Burmese \ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddf2 American engineer and project manager at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). She is the lead engineer on the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity, the first extraterrestrial aircraft which landed on Mars today. She was inspired [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,38,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-engineering","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122858","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}