{"id":80,"date":"2002-02-07T18:08:04","date_gmt":"2002-02-08T02:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=80"},"modified":"2004-10-18T20:01:39","modified_gmt":"2004-10-19T04:01:39","slug":"bugs-in-spaaace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"bugs in spaaace!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/enn.com\/news\/wire-stories\/2002\/01\/01242002\/reu_46217.asp\">This article<\/a> (found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scitechdaily.com\/\">SciTech Daily<\/a>) tells about tiny autonomous fliers proposed for Mars.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBees may also provide a solution for navigating on Mars, where there is no GPS network or magnetic field to tell one pole from another. Bees use a combination of polarization patterns in the sky, landmarks, and distance traveled to navigate.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is satellite-assisted navigation unlikely for Mars?  How many birds does it take?  If the flier gets even one fix a day, it can correct gross errors in dead-reckoning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article (found at SciTech Daily) tells about tiny autonomous fliers proposed for Mars. Bees may also provide a solution for navigating on Mars, where there is no GPS network or magnetic field to tell one pole from another. Bees &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=80\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futures","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}