{"id":5387,"date":"2012-08-06T01:01:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T06:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5387"},"modified":"2012-08-06T15:39:33","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T20:39:33","slug":"nasa-curiosity-lands-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5387","title":{"rendered":"NASA &#8211; Curiosity Lands on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>NASA&#8217;s Curiosity rover has landed on Mars! Its descent-stage retrorockets fired, guiding it to the surface. Nylon cords lowered the rover to the ground in the &#8220;sky crane&#8221; maneuver. When the spacecraft sensed touchdown,&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/externalflash\/mars\/curiosity_news3.html\">NASA &#8211; Curiosity Lands on Mars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/msl\/multimedia\/gallery\/pia14839.html\">Curiosity&#8217;s Sky Crane Maneuver, Artist&#8217;s Concept<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The sheer size of the Mars Science Laboratory rover (over one ton, or 900 kilograms) would preclude it from taking advantage of an airbag-assisted landing. Instead, the Mars Science Laboratory will use the sky crane touchdown system, which will be capable of delivering a much larger rover onto the surface. It will place the rover on its wheels, ready to begin its mission after thorough post-landing checkouts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Curiosity rover has landed on Mars! Its descent-stage retrorockets fired, guiding it to the surface. Nylon cords lowered the rover to the ground in the &#8220;sky crane&#8221; maneuver. When the spacecraft sensed touchdown,&#8230; via NASA &#8211; Curiosity Lands on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5387\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[513,512],"class_list":["post-5387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-nasa","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5387"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5417,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5387\/revisions\/5417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}