{"id":170722,"date":"2025-12-06T04:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T04:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/170722\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T04:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T04:12:08","slug":"testing-drones-for-mars-in-the-mojave-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/170722\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing Drones for Mars in the Mojave Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory monitor a research drone in this September 2025 photo. This flight occurred in Dumont Dunes, an area of the Mojave Desert, as part of a larger test campaign to develop navigation software that would guide future rotorcraft on Mars. The work was among 25 projects funded by <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/planetary-science\/programs\/mars-exploration\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">NASA\u2019s Mars Exploration Program<\/a> this past year to push the limits of future technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it\u2019s new navigation software, slope-scaling robotic scouts, or long-distance gliders, the technology being developed by the Mars Exploration Program envisions a future where robots can explore all on their own \u2014 or even help astronauts do their work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/nasa-tests-drones-in-death-valley-preps-for-martian-sands-and-skies\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Read more about the drone flight software test.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Text credit: NASA\/Andrew Good<\/p>\n<p>Image credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Researchers from NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory monitor a research drone in this September 2025 photo. This flight occurred&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-170722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}