{"id":78607,"date":"2018-05-12T10:22:35","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T17:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/nasa-plans-to-send-mini-helicopter-to-mars"},"modified":"2018-05-15T13:10:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T20:10:22","slug":"nasa-plans-to-send-mini-helicopter-to-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/nasa-plans-to-send-mini-helicopter-to-mars","title":{"rendered":"NASA plans to send mini-helicopter to Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-plans-to-send-mini-helicopter-to-mars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The US space agency said Friday it plans to launch the first-ever helicopter to Mars in 2020, a miniature, unmanned drone-like chopper that could boost our understanding of the Red Planet.<\/p>\n<p>Known simply as \u201cThe Mars Helicopter,\u201d the device weighs less than four pounds (1.8 kilograms), and its main body section, or fuselage, is about the size of a softball.<\/p>\n<p>It will be attached to the belly pan of the Mars 2020 rover, a wheeled robot that aims to determine the habitability of the Martian environment, <i>search<\/i> for signs of ancient life, and assess natural resources and hazards for future human explorers.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/technology.inquirer.net\/75781\/nasa-plans-send-mini-helicopter-mars?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#link_time=1526095469\">http:\/\/technology.inquirer.net\/75781\/nasa-plans-send-mini-he...1526095469<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US space agency said Friday it plans to launch the first-ever helicopter to Mars in 2020, a miniature, unmanned drone-like chopper that could boost our understanding of the Red Planet. Known simply as \u201cThe Mars Helicopter,\u201d the device weighs less than four pounds (1.8 kilograms), and its main body section, or fuselage, is about [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78607","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78758,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78607\/revisions\/78758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}