{"id":141757,"date":"2022-07-06T21:22:54","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T02:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/mars-sailplane-prototype-soars-during-early-stage-tethered-flight-test-in-arizona"},"modified":"2022-07-06T21:22:54","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T02:22:54","slug":"mars-sailplane-prototype-soars-during-early-stage-tethered-flight-test-in-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/mars-sailplane-prototype-soars-during-early-stage-tethered-flight-test-in-arizona","title":{"rendered":"Mars sailplane prototype soars during early-stage tethered flight test in Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mars-sailplane-prototype-soars-during-early-stage-tethered-flight-test-in-arizona2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers want to know more about the Red Planet\u2019s enigmatic geology and thin atmosphere.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>An early-stage Martian sailplane soared aloft, tethered to a balloon, as engineers ponder the possibilities to expand Red Planet flight.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Arizona released a progress update on its sailplane project June 30 in conjunction with a recent journal publication exploring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/47-mars-the-red-planet-fourth-planet-from-the-sun.html\">Mars<\/a> exploration using motorless sailplanes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers want to know more about the Red Planet\u2019s enigmatic geology and thin atmosphere. An early-stage Martian sailplane soared aloft, tethered to a balloon, as engineers ponder the possibilities to expand Red Planet flight. The University of Arizona released a progress update on its sailplane project June 30 in conjunction with a recent journal publication [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141757","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}