{"id":2099,"date":"2012-08-06T00:05:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T07:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=2099"},"modified":"2012-08-05T23:39:46","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T06:39:46","slug":"2099","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2012\/08\/06\/2099\/","title":{"rendered":"Curiosity on Mars!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curiosity has successfully landed on Mars.  It landed on its own, autonomously.  The United States has had a robotic presense at Mars (in orbit or on the surface) for the last 15 years.  The United States is the only nation that has successfully landed probes on Mars.<\/p>\n<p>This is what happened on August 5, 2012.  We tossed a car (Curiosity weighs a ton and is the size of of Mini Cooper automobile) at Mars and it landed safely.  And how much did it cost?  It cost each American citizen about 7 dollars.  Not bad.  Cheaper than a movie, and this is real, not fiction!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BudlaGh1A0o\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BudlaGh1A0o\" target=\"_blank\">Landing sequence for Curiosity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curiosity has successfully landed on Mars. It landed on its own, autonomously. The United States has had a robotic presense at Mars (in orbit or on the surface) for the last 15 years. The United States is the only nation &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2012\/08\/06\/2099\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[4,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2099"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2105,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions\/2105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}