{"id":427,"date":"2021-06-05T07:49:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T15:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/?p=427"},"modified":"2021-06-05T07:49:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T15:49:30","slug":"japan-will-send-a-transforming-robot-ball-to-the-moon-to-test-lunar-rover-tech-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/05\/japan-will-send-a-transforming-robot-ball-to-the-moon-to-test-lunar-rover-tech-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan will send a transforming robot ball to the moon to test lunar rover tech | Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;The transformable lunar robot will be an ultra-compact and ultra-lightweight robot that can traverse in the harsh lunar environment,&#8221; JAXA stated. The robot&#8217;s diminutive size and small mass of 250 grams, JAXA added, &#8220;contributes to a reduction in volume during transportation to the moon. Therefore, it is expected to play active roles in future lunar exploration missions as well.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/japan-transformable-moon-robot-ispace-2022-lunar-lander\">Japan will send a transforming robot ball to the moon to test lunar rover tech | Space<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The transformable lunar robot will be an ultra-compact and ultra-lightweight robot that can traverse in the harsh lunar environment,&#8221; JAXA stated. The robot&#8217;s diminutive size and small mass of 250 grams, JAXA added, &#8220;contributes to a reduction in volume during transportation to the moon. Therefore, it is expected to play active roles in future lunar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-robotics","category-science","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}