{"id":137313,"date":"2022-03-24T18:03:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T01:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/with-21-flights-under-its-belt-ingenuity-is-getting-a-mission-extension"},"modified":"2022-03-24T18:03:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T01:03:22","slug":"with-21-flights-under-its-belt-ingenuity-is-getting-a-mission-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/with-21-flights-under-its-belt-ingenuity-is-getting-a-mission-extension","title":{"rendered":"With 21 Flights Under its Belt, Ingenuity is Getting a Mission Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/with-21-flights-under-its-belt-ingenuity-is-getting-a-mission-extension2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ingenuity, the helicopter currently zipping its way around Mars, has been a hotly watched topic here at UT. After completing its 21st mission and being on the planet for a little over a year, Ingenuity\u2019s handlers have officially extended its mission in the hopes that it will continue its stellar, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/150943\/you-wouldnt-believe-what-i-just-saw-ingenuity-helicopter-flies-successfully-on-mars\/\">groundbreaking performances<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Perseverance, Ingenuity\u2019s rover companion, is transitioning into its second scientific campaign, where it plans to travel 130 meters up from the Jezero crater floor to a dried-up river delta. Here it will focus on one of its primary missions \u2013 searching for evidence of ancient life on Mars. And Ingenuity will help lead the way.<\/p>\n<p>Even Ingenuity\u2019s path to the river delta, which isn\u2019t limited to staying on the ground, won\u2019t be easy. It will likely take three separate flights to get to a new staging area in the delta, including one that goes around a hill that rises off the crater floor. During this time, it will help scout a pathway for Perseverance to take, including providing information to decide which of two river channels the rover should take to reach the delta itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingenuity, the helicopter currently zipping its way around Mars, has been a hotly watched topic here at UT. After completing its 21st mission and being on the planet for a little over a year, Ingenuity\u2019s handlers have officially extended its mission in the hopes that it will continue its stellar, groundbreaking performances. Perseverance, Ingenuity\u2019s rover [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137313","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=137313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}