{"id":152086,"date":"2022-12-07T15:29:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T21:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/nasas-mars-ingenuity-helicopter-just-flew-higher-than-ever-before"},"modified":"2022-12-07T15:29:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T21:29:06","slug":"nasas-mars-ingenuity-helicopter-just-flew-higher-than-ever-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/nasas-mars-ingenuity-helicopter-just-flew-higher-than-ever-before","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Mars Ingenuity helicopter just flew higher than ever before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-mars-ingenuity-helicopter-just-flew-higher-than-ever-before2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many believed Ingenuity would not soar to such heights.<\/p>\n<p>NASA achieved a historic first in April last year when it performed the first-ever controlled flight of an aircraft on Mars. The Ingenuity helicopter, which hitched a ride to Mars aboard NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover, was designed as a proof-of-concept craft that was only expected to fly a total of five times.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Mars helicopter has achieved flight no. 35, and it has set a new altitude record in the process, reaching a height of 14 meters (46 feet) above the red planet\u2019s surface, NASA announced on Twitter.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NASA<\/p>\n<p>The Ingenuity helicopter, which hitched a ride to Mars aboard NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover, was designed as a proof-of-concept craft that was only expected to fly a total of five times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many believed Ingenuity would not soar to such heights. NASA achieved a historic first in April last year when it performed the first-ever controlled flight of an aircraft on Mars. The Ingenuity helicopter, which hitched a ride to Mars aboard NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover, was designed as a proof-of-concept craft that was only expected to fly [\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-152086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152086","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=152086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}