{"id":133545,"date":"2022-01-04T08:43:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T16:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/hovering-moon-rover-concept-uses-an-electric-field-to-float"},"modified":"2022-01-04T08:43:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T16:43:07","slug":"hovering-moon-rover-concept-uses-an-electric-field-to-float","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/hovering-moon-rover-concept-uses-an-electric-field-to-float","title":{"rendered":"Hovering Moon Rover Concept Uses An Electric Field To Float"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hovering-moon-rover-concept-uses-an-electric-field-to-float.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When thinking of the power of the Ingenuity drone on Mars, which has done more than a dozen flights on the Red Planet to scout ahead of the Perseverance rover, imagine what it would be like to fly a similar machine over the moon.<\/p>\n<p>But without a substantial atmosphere to speak of \u2014 the moon is essentially \u201cairless\u201d \u2014 such a hovering drone needs a completely different way to stay above ground than on Mars. The early-stage design, being developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, proposes using the moon\u2019s static charge to keep the vehicle flying.<\/p>\n<p>The moon\u2019s electrical properties are well-known to science, as it produces such qualities as hovering dust \u2014 especially at the line of daylight and darkness. Small rovers on the moon haven\u2019t been used yet at all, although we have seen a few on the Japanese Hayabusa2 mission to asteroid Ryugu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat spacecraft operated around a small asteroid and deployed small rovers to its surface,\u201d lead author Oliver Jia-Richards, a graduate student in MIT\u2019s department of aeronautics and astronautics, said in a statement. \u201cSimilarly, we think a future [moon] mission could send out small hovering rovers to explore the surface of the moon and other asteroids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Full Story:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When thinking of the power of the Ingenuity drone on Mars, which has done more than a dozen flights on the Red Planet to scout ahead of the Perseverance rover, imagine what it would be like to fly a similar machine over the moon. But without a substantial atmosphere to speak of \u2014 the moon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133545","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}