{"id":135165,"date":"2022-02-03T15:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T23:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/glowing-helicopters-on-mars"},"modified":"2022-02-03T15:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T23:22:19","slug":"glowing-helicopters-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/glowing-helicopters-on-mars","title":{"rendered":"Glowing Helicopters on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/glowing-helicopters-on-mars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If the Ingenuity helicopter would fly at night on Mars, its very possible the whirring rotors would create enough static electricity in the extremely dry Martian atmosphere to cause the air around the craft to glow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe faint glow would be most visible during evening hours when the background sky is darker,\u201d said William Farrell, from Goddard Space Flight Center and lead author of a paper on this topic. \u201cNASA\u2019s experimental Ingenuity helicopter does not fly during this time, but future drones could be cleared for evening flight and look for this glow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever shuffled your feet across a wool carpet on a dry winter day, and then reached out to touch a metal doorknob, you\u2019re familiar with the static discharge that creates a little zap \u2014 a spark \u2014 that leaps between your fingers and the metal knob.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the Ingenuity helicopter would fly at night on Mars, its very possible the whirring rotors would create enough static electricity in the extremely dry Martian atmosphere to cause the air around the craft to glow. \u201cThe faint glow would be most visible during evening hours when the background sky is darker,\u201d said William Farrell, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135165","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=135165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}