{"id":3316,"date":"2021-01-30T00:05:51","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T00:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/?p=3316"},"modified":"2021-01-29T23:13:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T23:13:11","slug":"something-for-feb-perseverance-rover-due-at-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/?p=3316","title":{"rendered":"Something for Feb – Perseverance Rover due at Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a lot of interest in Mars at the moment from a number of different countries with current missions from China and the UAE and plans by the ESA\/Russia, Japan and India in the next 3 or 4 years.<\/p>\n

First up look out on the 18th February for the scheduled landing of the NASA Mars Perseverance Rover, if successful it will be another engineering feat using a “sky crane”.<\/p>\n

\"Mars<\/a>
Mars Perseverance Rover landing Feb 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It includes another engineering first, Ingenuity, the first helicopter to operate outside of the Earth.  This is a test to check the feasibility of flying a drone on a planet with a much thinner atmosphere, 1% of the thickness of Earth’s atmosphere.  It weights 1.8kg and is fitted with counter rotating blades running at 2,400rpm.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Mars Perseverance Rover-Ingenuity Drone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Further info:-
\nPerseverance Mission<\/a>  :  Ingenuity Helicopter<\/a>  :  Wikipedia page-missions to Mars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a lot of interest in Mars at the moment from a number of different countries with current missions from China and the UAE and plans by the ESA\/Russia, Japan and India in the next 3 or 4 years. First up look out on the 18th February for the scheduled landing of the NASA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3316"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3325,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316\/revisions\/3325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}