{"id":1943,"date":"2008-05-01T15:11:57","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T22:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2008\/05\/01\/flight-of-the-phoenix-part-ii\/"},"modified":"2008-05-01T18:15:06","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T01:15:06","slug":"flight-of-the-phoenix-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2008\/05\/01\/flight-of-the-phoenix-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight of the Phoenix &#8211; Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"right\">\n<script src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/video\/2007\/07\/phoenix-lander.php\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong>NASA Video &#8211; click > to play.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>May 25th is the target date for the landing of NASA&#8217;s Phoenix Mars Lander, whose mission is to explore the Martian arctic plain. NASA adjusted the lander&#8217;s trajectory in April to refine the final approach to the planet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Check out this really cool video of the landing and post-landing phase of the mission.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Launched in August 2007, Phoenix is a stationary lander equipped with a trench-digging robotic arm to bite into the Martian surface and scoop up samples of nearby soil and water ice. The probe&#8217;s top-mounted suite of ovens and wet chemistry instruments are designed to help determine whether its arctic plain landing site &#8211; a region similar in latitude to central Greenland or northern Alaska on Earth &#8211; could have once proven habitable for primitive life.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to a safe landing for Phoenix. This will be the first Mars lander to use a retro-rocket to cushion the landing since the Mars rovers landed using the balloon-bounce landing technique over 1500 &#8216;sols&#8217; (Martian days) ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA Video &#8211; click > to play. May 25th is the target date for the landing of NASA&#8217;s Phoenix Mars Lander, whose mission is to explore&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerospace","category-rocket-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}