{"id":10239,"date":"2011-10-08T11:54:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T11:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/10\/08\/are-you-mars-curious\/"},"modified":"2011-10-08T11:54:48","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T11:54:48","slug":"are-you-mars-curious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/08\/are-you-mars-curious\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you Mars-curious?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/6a00d8341bf67c53ef0153922165b5970b-800wi.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-20fe73fa25842b5bfc98f5b991899ce4-6a00d8341bf67c53ef0153922165b5970b-800wi-thumb-250x202-69764.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-20fe73fa25842b5bfc98f5b991899ce4-6a00d8341bf67c53ef0153922165b5970b-800wi-thumb-250x202-69764.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>Curiosity is a new Mars Rover that looks like a UFO when it&#8217;s all folded up in its space-pod, but looks like a Transformer when it is deployed.<\/p>\n<p>The space travelling robot has been folded up and sealed into its anti-germ container (to avoid letting germs out into the Martian ecosystem, the rover is sterilized and sealed up) in preparation for its launch, which is coming up soon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/559441main_curiosity_946-710.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-97d84faef372912eae1f64b5944ea79a-559441main_curiosity_946-710-thumb-250x187-69766.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-97d84faef372912eae1f64b5944ea79a-559441main_curiosity_946-710-thumb-250x187-69766.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>According to NASA, Launch Window opens at 10:21 EST on November 25th.  Arrival at the planet Mars is expected in August, 2012 .<\/p>\n<p>The main thing this robot is curious about is the presence of microbial life, past or present, on the red planet.<\/p>\n<p>You can keep track of Mars rover missions on the NASA web site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/mer\/index.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curiosity is a new Mars Rover that looks like a UFO when it&#8217;s all folded up in its space-pod, but looks like a Transformer when it is deployed. The space travelling robot has been folded up and sealed into its anti-germ container (to avoid letting germs out into the Martian ecosystem, the rover is sterilized &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/08\/are-you-mars-curious\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Are you Mars-curious?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[191],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2F9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}