{"id":19106,"date":"2024-01-21T11:10:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T11:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/21\/nasa-regains-contact-with-mini-helicopter-on-mars-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2024-01-21T11:10:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T11:10:09","slug":"nasa-regains-contact-with-mini-helicopter-on-mars-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/21\/nasa-regains-contact-with-mini-helicopter-on-mars-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Regains Contact With Mini-Helicopter On Mars &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Washington<\/strong>: NASA has re-established contact with its tiny helicopter on Mars, the US space agency said Saturday after an unexpected outage prompted fears that the hard-working craft had finally met its end.<\/p>\n<p>Ingenuity\u2019s handlers lost contact with the 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) chopper on Thursday (Jan. 18), toward the end of its 72nd flight on Mars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood news today,\u201d NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) wrote on X, formerly Twitter, late Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said that contact had finally been made with the helicopter by commanding Perseverance to \u201cperform long-duration listening sessions for Ingenuity\u2019s signal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team is reviewing the new data to better understand the unexpected comms dropout during Flight 72,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;&gt;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Good news today: We\u2019ve reestablished contact with the <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MarsHelicopter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MarsHelicopter<\/a> after instructing <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASAPersevere?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NASAPersevere<\/a> to perform long-duration listening sessions for Ingenuity\u2019s signal.<\/p>\n<p>The team is reviewing the new data to better understand the unexpected comms dropout during Flight 72. <\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NASA JPL (@NASAJPL) <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASAJPL\/status\/1748883252604236281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 21, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&lt;\/&gt;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Washington: NASA has re-established contact with its tiny helicopter on Mars, the US space agency said Saturday after an unexpected outage prompted fears that the hard-working craft had finally met its end. Ingenuity\u2019s handlers lost contact with the 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) chopper on Thursday (Jan. 18), toward the end of its 72nd flight on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19108,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19106\/revisions\/19108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}