{"id":792180,"date":"2024-12-20T09:40:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T14:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=792180"},"modified":"2024-12-20T09:40:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T14:40:30","slug":"nasas-mars-helicopter-was-grounded-in-2024-after-surprise-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=792180","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Mars helicopter was grounded in 2024 after surprise success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">NASA\u2019s Ingenuity helicopter on Mars, snapped by the Perseverance rover<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/ASU\/MSSS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A little helicopter finally met its end this year. NASA\u2019s Ingenuity drone made its 72nd and final flight on Mars in January, damaging one of its rotors on landing, concluding one of the most unusual space exploration experiments in recent decades.<\/p>\n<p>Having reached the surface of Mars on the Perseverance rover in 2021, the drone flew missions autonomously because the long delay in radio transmissions between Earth and Mars made direct control impossible.\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2452820-nasas-mars-helicopter-was-grounded-in-2024-after-surprise-success\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Ingenuity helicopter on Mars, snapped by the Perseverance rover NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/ASU\/MSSS A little helicopter finally met its end this year. NASA\u2019s Ingenuity drone made its 72nd and final flight on&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":792181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=792180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/792181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=792180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=792180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=792180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}