{"id":125918,"date":"2021-08-06T05:22:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T12:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/north-by-northwest-for-ingenuitys-11th-flight"},"modified":"2021-08-06T05:22:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T12:22:37","slug":"north-by-northwest-for-ingenuitys-11th-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/north-by-northwest-for-ingenuitys-11th-flight","title":{"rendered":"North-By-Northwest for Ingenuity\u2019s 11th Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/north-by-northwest-for-ingenuitys-11th-flight3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re heading northwest for the 11<sup>th<\/sup> flight of NASA\u2019s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, which will happen no earlier than Wednesday night, Aug. 4. The mission profile is designed to stay ahead of the rover \u2013 supporting its future science goals in the \u201cSouth S\u00e9\u00edtah\u201d region, where it will be able to gather aerial imagery in support of future Perseverance Mars rover surface operations in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Here is how we plan to do it: On whatever day the flight takes place, we will start at 12:30 p.m. local Mars time (on Aug. 4, this would be 9:47 p.m. PDT\/Aug. 5, 12:47 a.m. EDT). Ingenuity wakes up from its slumber and begins a pre-programmed series of preflight checks. Three minutes later, we\u2019re off \u2013 literally \u2013 climbing to a height of 39 feet (12 meters), then heading downrange at a speed of 11 mph (5 meters per second).<\/p>\n<p>And while Flight 11 is primarily intended as a transfer flight \u2013 moving the helicopter from one place to the other \u2014 we\u2019re not letting the opportunity go to waste to take a few images along the way. Ingenuity\u2019s color camera will take multiple photos en route, and then at the end of the flight, near our new airfield, we\u2019ll take two images to make a 3D stereo pair. Flight 11 \u2013 from takeoff to landing \u2013- should take about 130 seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re heading northwest for the 11th flight of NASA\u2019s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, which will happen no earlier than Wednesday night, Aug. 4. The mission profile is designed to stay ahead of the rover \u2013 supporting its future science goals in the \u201cSouth S\u00e9\u00edtah\u201d region, where it will be able to gather aerial imagery in support [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125918","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=125918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}