{"id":577,"date":"2018-05-11T14:57:39","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T21:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scotthulme.com\/blog\/?p=577"},"modified":"2018-09-19T23:42:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T06:42:07","slug":"mars-helicopter-technology-demonstration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scotthulme.com\/blog\/mars-helicopter-technology-demonstration\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars Helicopter Technology Demonstration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gotta admit: I&#8217;m pretty excited about this one. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been working on proposal videos on this project for some time &#8212; so NASA&#8217;s announcement that it&#8217;s really going to Mars is pretty exciting! \u00a0Of course, while this animation may have helped make the case, it would all be vaporware without the amazing engineering team. \u00a0Congrats to all my crazy brainiac colleagues!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NASA Mars Helicopter Technology Demonstration\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oOMQOqKRWjU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We\u2019re sending a helicopter to Mars! Traveling onboard our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Mars2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Mars2020<\/a> rover, this <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Marscopter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Marscopter<\/a> will test our capabilities for controlled flight in the thin atmosphere of the Red Planet and could pave the way for future uses across the solar system: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uZFyRmUTgh\">https:\/\/t.co\/uZFyRmUTgh<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XlCP9xERub\">pic.twitter.com\/XlCP9xERub<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NASA (@NASA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASA\/status\/995042977213972480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 11, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>[Video produced by Scott Hulme; presented courtesy NASA\/JPL-Caltech]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gotta admit: I&#8217;m pretty excited about this one. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been working on proposal videos on this project for some time &#8212; so NASA&#8217;s announcement that it&#8217;s really going to Mars is pretty exciting! \u00a0Of course, while this animation may have helped make the case, it would all be vaporware without the amazing engineering team. \u00a0Congrats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,16],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animation","tag-editing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scotthulme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scotthulme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scotthulme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scotthulme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scotthulme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scotthulme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580,"href":"https:\/\/scotthulme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scotthulme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scotthulme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scotthulme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scotthulme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}