{"id":345,"date":"2012-01-02T14:31:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T21:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=345"},"modified":"2012-09-14T11:09:05","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T16:09:05","slug":"a-noiseless-patient-rover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=345","title":{"rendered":"A noiseless, patient rover"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/mars-curiosity-rover.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Curiosity\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/7a\/593484main_pia14839_full_Curiosity%27s_Sky_Crane_Maneuver%2C_Artist%27s_Concept.jpg\/320px-593484main_pia14839_full_Curiosity%27s_Sky_Crane_Maneuver%2C_Artist%27s_Concept.jpg\" alt=\"Curiosity rover descends on sky crane\" width=\"240\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy NASA\/JPL-Caltech<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Aug. 6, 2012, a new rover will touch down on Mars \u2014 bigger, badder and bristling with more gear than a spelunker convention. Although rocking the same suspension system and basic design, Curiosity, aka the \u201cmonster truck of science,\u201d is so much heftier than its predecessors that NASA and JPL had to invent an entirely new way to land it: one part HALO jump, one part rocket-hovering sky crane. Its mission: investigate if the right conditions exist, or ever have, to support microbial life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/mars-curiosity-rover4.htm\" target=\"_blank\">How the Mars Curiosity Rover Works<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Aug. 6, 2012, a new rover will touch down on Mars \u2014 bigger, badder and bristling with more gear than a spelunker convention. Although rocking the same suspension system and basic design, Curiosity, aka the \u201cmonster truck of science,\u201d is so much heftier than its predecessors that NASA and JPL had to invent an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=345\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A noiseless, patient rover<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,94,74,3,57,13],"tags":[81,204,206,203,153,79,58,83,205,51],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-engineering","category-physics","category-science","category-space","category-technology","tag-aerodynamics","tag-curiosity","tag-exploration","tag-jpl","tag-mars","tag-nasa","tag-planets","tag-remote-sensing","tag-rover","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}