{"id":1797,"date":"2024-02-22T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/02\/22\/the-mars-helicopter-and-its-co2-insulation\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:01:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:01:42","slug":"the-mars-helicopter-and-its-co2-insulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/02\/22\/the-mars-helicopter-and-its-co2-insulation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mars Helicopter and its CO2 Insulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GhsZUZmJvaM?si=zRxFQfe-oa3T8Gb4?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>This video isn&#8217;t about homebrew ham gear, but nonetheless I found it very interesting. Of particular interest is the bit about their need to find a very low-weight insulator to protect the instruments from the cold of the Martian night. Aerogel would have been too heavy. So they just filled the instrument chamber with Carbon Dioxide. That was their insulator. Think about that, especially those of you who still deny CO2&#8217;s ability to heat up the atmosphere. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>There is a lot of great stuff on Veritasium&#8217;s YouTube channel: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@veritasium\"><b>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@veritasium<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video isn&#8217;t about homebrew ham gear, but nonetheless I found it very interesting. Of particular interest is the bit about their need to find a very low-weight insulator to protect the instruments from the cold of the Martian night. Aerogel would have been too heavy. So they just filled the instrument chamber with Carbon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/02\/22\/the-mars-helicopter-and-its-co2-insulation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Mars Helicopter and its CO2 Insulation&#8221;<\/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":[313,308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-mars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11233,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions\/11233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}