{"id":127108,"date":"2021-09-02T07:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T14:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/china-shows-off-its-mars-cruise-drone-prototype"},"modified":"2021-09-02T07:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T14:22:18","slug":"china-shows-off-its-mars-cruise-drone-prototype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/china-shows-off-its-mars-cruise-drone-prototype","title":{"rendered":"China shows off its Mars cruise drone prototype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-shows-off-its-mars-cruise-drone-prototype3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China has shown off the prototype of its \u201cMars cruise drone\u201d designed for surveillance work on future Mars missions, following the historic landing of a robotic rover on the Red Planet a few months ago.<\/p>\n<p>The prototype of the miniature helicopter successfully passed the final acceptance, China\u2019s National Space Science Center (CNNSC) <a href=\"http:\/\/nssc.ac.cn\/xwdt2015\/zhxw2015\/202109\/t20210901_6179180.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> on Wednesday. In the images shared by the science center, the prototype looks similar in appearance to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/nasa-ingenuity-helicopter-flown-first-mile-mars\/20239\/\">NASA\u2019s Ingenuity helicopter<\/a>, developed for its Perseverance mission this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese prototype sports two rotor blades, a sensor-and-camera base, and four thin legs, but there is no solar panel at the top like Ingenuity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has shown off the prototype of its \u201cMars cruise drone\u201d designed for surveillance work on future Mars missions, following the historic landing of a robotic rover on the Red Planet a few months ago. The prototype of the miniature helicopter successfully passed the final acceptance, China\u2019s National Space Science Center (CNNSC) announced on Wednesday. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,6,1633,8,1511,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-robotics-ai","category-solar-power","category-space","category-surveillance","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127108","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\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}