{"id":171713,"date":"2023-09-10T04:26:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T09:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/how-helicopters-on-mars-could-find-hidden-magnetism-in-planets-crust"},"modified":"2023-09-10T04:26:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T09:26:14","slug":"how-helicopters-on-mars-could-find-hidden-magnetism-in-planets-crust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/how-helicopters-on-mars-could-find-hidden-magnetism-in-planets-crust","title":{"rendered":"How helicopters on Mars could find hidden magnetism in planet\u2019s crust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-helicopters-on-mars-could-find-hidden-magnetism-in-planets-crust2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A simple add-on to Ingenuity-like crafts could gather unique data, scientists say. Last weekend, NASA\u2019s Ingenuity helicopter notched over 100 minutes of flying time in thin Martian air, a feat which until only a couple of years ago was considered wildly ambitious.<\/p>\n<p>Originally designed for a simple technology demonstration, the \u201cMarscopter\u201d has far exceeded its initial one-month, five-flight mission, after which its role was extended to scout the Martian landscape and assist NASA\u2019s Perseverance life-seeking rover. Riding on Ingenuity\u2019s success, scientists are already planning two more mini helicopters. These will serve as backup copters in the space agency\u2019s mission to bring tubes of Martian\u2026 More.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A simple add-on to Ingenuity-like crafts could gather unique data, scientists say. Last weekend, NASA\u2019s Ingenuity helicopter notched over 100 minutes of flying time in thin Martian air, a feat which until only a couple of years ago was considered wildly ambitious. Originally designed for a simple technology demonstration, the \u201cMarscopter\u201d has far exceeded its [\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-171713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171713","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=171713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}