{"id":912,"date":"2020-01-27T20:28:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T01:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/?p=912"},"modified":"2020-02-22T16:49:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T21:49:21","slug":"912","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/2020\/01\/27\/912\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone shortcourse launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started teaching a 1 credit drone course this semester to introduce students to the joys of unmanned flights\u00a0 I have 3o undergrads and 10 grad students in the class. The course gives me an excuse to keep in touch with former graduate student Dr. Jim Berglund about what is going on in the drone world.\u00a0 He sent me this image to compare the size of wings for a drone on earth versus the same size drone on Mars (with less dense atmosphere).\u00a0 Our Temple drone would require propellers the size of a small aircraft to get enough lift on Mars!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2020\/01\/props_for_mars.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-910 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2020\/01\/props_for_mars-300x190.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2020\/01\/props_for_mars-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2020\/01\/props_for_mars.png 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2020\/02\/Group_with_drones.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-917\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2020\/02\/Group_with_drones-288x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2020\/02\/Group_with_drones-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2020\/02\/Group_with_drones-768x799.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2020\/02\/Group_with_drones.jpg 871w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few of the students with their drones.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started teaching a 1 credit drone course this semester to introduce students to the joys of unmanned flights\u00a0 I have 3o undergrads and 10 grad students in the class. The course gives me an excuse to keep in touch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/2020\/01\/27\/912\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}