{"id":147469,"date":"2022-10-03T15:24:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T20:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-flew-with-a-foreign-piece-of-debris-attached-to-its-foot"},"modified":"2022-10-03T15:24:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T20:24:18","slug":"nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-flew-with-a-foreign-piece-of-debris-attached-to-its-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-flew-with-a-foreign-piece-of-debris-attached-to-its-foot","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Ingenuity helicopter flew with a \u2018foreign\u2019 piece of debris attached to its foot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-flew-with-a-foreign-piece-of-debris-attached-to-its-foot2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The helicopter has been scouting the red planet for over a year.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Ingenuity helicopter went from being a proof of concept for off-world flight to becoming a fully-fledged aerial scout for NASA\u2019s Perseverance mission.<\/p>\n<p>The helicopter wasn\u2019t alone, as per a blog post from NASA. Images from the chopper show a flowing debris object, resembling a piece of a plastic bag, for part of its journey.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NASA<\/p>\n<p>The helicopter was initially only expected to fly about five times \u2014 proving humans could perform a controlled flight in Mars\u2019 thin atmosphere \u2014 but it took off for the 33rd time on September 24 for a short repositioning flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The helicopter has been scouting the red planet for over a year. NASA\u2019s Ingenuity helicopter went from being a proof of concept for off-world flight to becoming a fully-fledged aerial scout for NASA\u2019s Perseverance mission. The helicopter wasn\u2019t alone, as per a blog post from NASA. Images from the chopper show a flowing debris object, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147469","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=147469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}