{"id":3926431,"date":"2026-06-11T11:03:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/how-a-shape-shifting-tiny-rover-inspired-by-japanese-toys-autonomously-explored-the-moon\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T11:03:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:03:55","slug":"how-a-shape-shifting-tiny-rover-inspired-by-japanese-toys-autonomously-explored-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/how-a-shape-shifting-tiny-rover-inspired-by-japanese-toys-autonomously-explored-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"How a shape-shifting tiny rover inspired by Japanese toys autonomously explored the moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Moon missions come in all shapes and sizes, from car-sized rovers packed with scientific equipment to towering rocket payloads\u2014and now, a small, shape-shifting machine that is about the size of the average palm.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-06-shifting-tiny-rover-japanese-toys.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moon missions come in all shapes and sizes, from car-sized rovers packed with scientific equipment to towering rocket payloads\u2014and now, a small, shape-shifting machine that is about the size of the average palm. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3926431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}