{"id":27351,"date":"2026-04-19T00:50:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T04:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=27351"},"modified":"2025-12-12T10:34:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:34:15","slug":"ingenuity-became-first-invention-to-fly-on-another-planet-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=27351","title":{"rendered":"Ingenuity Became First Invention to Fly on another Planet in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Ingenuity<\/em> became the first invention to fly on another planet in 2021<\/strong>. <em>Ingenuity<\/em>, also called <em>Ginny<\/em>, is a robotic helicopter that flew above the surface of Mars. It is part of NASA&#8217;s Mars 2020 Mission. It, with the robotic <em>Perseverance<\/em> rover, landed on Mars on February 18, 2021. It is equipped with sensors and two cameras. <em>Ginny<\/em> was created to send back photos and data regarding Mars. <em>Ginny,\u00a0<\/em>as of April 15, 2023, had conducted 50 flights. \u00a0It performed its last flight on January 18, 2024. It then sustained damaged to its rotor blade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingenuity became the first invention to fly on another planet in 2021. Ingenuity, also called Ginny, is a robotic helicopter that flew above the surface of Mars. It is part of NASA&#8217;s Mars 2020 Mission. It, with the robotic Perseverance rover, landed on Mars on February 18, 2021. It is equipped with sensors and two <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=27351' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27351"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28540,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27351\/revisions\/28540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}