{"id":5167,"date":"2012-08-06T10:39:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T17:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2012\/08\/06\/curiosity-lands-safely-on-mars\/"},"modified":"2012-08-06T10:39:52","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T17:39:52","slug":"curiosity-lands-safely-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2012\/08\/06\/curiosity-lands-safely-on-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Curiosity Lands Safely on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/curiosity.jpg' title='Curiosity'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/curiosity.jpg' alt='Curiosity' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to NASA and JPL team for the safe landing of the Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>Mission Information courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/mars.jpl.nasa.gov\/msl\/mission\/rover\/\">JPL\/NASA<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mission name: Mars Science Laboratory<\/p>\n<p>Rover name: Curiosity rover<\/p>\n<p>Size: About the size of a small SUV &#8212; 10 feet long (not including the arm), 9 feet wide and 7 feet tall &#8212; (about 3 meters long (not including the arm), 2.7 meters wide, and 2.2 meters tall), or about the height of a basketball player.<\/p>\n<p>Arm Reach: About 7 feet (2.2 meters)<\/p>\n<p>Weight: 900 kilograms (2,000 pounds)<\/p>\n<p>Features: Geology lab, rocker-bogie suspension, rock-vaporizing laser and lots of cameras<\/p>\n<p>Mission: To search areas of Mars for past or present conditions favorable for life, and conditions capable of preserving a record of life<\/p>\n<p>Launch:<br \/>\n7:02 a.m. PST, Nov. 26, 2011<br \/>\n(10:02 a.m. EST)<\/p>\n<p>Landing:<br \/>\n10:31 p.m. PDT, Aug. 5, 2012<br \/>\n(1:31 a.m. EDT, Aug. 6, 2012)<\/p>\n<p>Length of mission on Mars: The prime mission will last one Mars year or about 23 Earth months.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Image courtesy JPL\/NASA. Click to enlarge<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to NASA and JPL team for the safe landing of the Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory. Mission Information courtesy JPL\/NASA: Mission name: Mars Science Laboratory Rover&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerospace","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}