{"id":958,"date":"2012-08-06T06:08:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T06:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=958"},"modified":"2012-08-06T06:17:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T06:17:39","slug":"curiosity-lands-successfully-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=958","title":{"rendered":"Curiosity lands successfully on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_962\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-962\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/CuriosityRover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-962\" title=\"CuriosityRover\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/CuriosityRover-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/CuriosityRover-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/CuriosityRover.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Curiosity rover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The most high-tech Mars rover ever built has landed on the red planet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">NASA says it received a signal from the Curiosity rover Sunday night after a plunge through the Martian atmosphere described as &#8220;seven minutes of terror.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The rover is the size of a small car, so engineers had to come up with a new way to set it down. For the first time, cables were used to lower the rover inside of a giant crater.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At $2.5 billion, it&#8217;s the most ambitious and priciest Mars mission yet. For the next two years, the rover will drill into rocks and scoop up soil. It will be exploring whether the planet&#8217;s environment could have supported life in the form of microscopic organisms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Curiosity rover survived a harrowing landing on Mars early Monday in a never-before-tried technique that saw it lowered to the surface of the Red Planet like a spider on a string, the US space agency said. &#8211; DPA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most high-tech Mars rover ever built has landed on the red planet. NASA says it received a signal from the Curiosity rover Sunday night after a plunge through the Martian atmosphere described as &#8220;seven minutes of terror.&#8221; The rover is the size of a small car, so engineers had to come up with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=958\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Curiosity lands successfully on Mars&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,229],"tags":[678,680,679,681],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-science","tag-curiosity","tag-mars","tag-nasa","tag-rover"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/CuriosityRover.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}