{"id":28,"date":"2008-05-26T18:57:24","date_gmt":"2008-05-26T23:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2008-07-05T21:45:04","modified_gmt":"2008-07-06T02:45:04","slug":"phoenix-parachute-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/26\/phoenix-parachute-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix parachute photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t going to post anything more about the Phoenix Lander, as the media&#8217;s picked it up now, and I don&#8217;t have a lot to add.<\/p>\n<p>But then, I saw this photo..<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blog\/article\/00001464\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/xorgnz\/SDuP5ZmDLRI\/AAAAAAAADMg\/rR91tnpO1A4\/s400\/HiRISE_PHX_Lander.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s Phoenix decelerating with its parachute in the Martian atmosphere, taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Not a high quality image, but there&#8217;s something totally awesome about this. It&#8217;s not just telemetry and indirect guesses &#8211; that&#8217;s a man-made probe, landing on an alien world, and we can actually see it.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not in awe of that, what exactly does it take?<\/p>\n<p><small>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blog\/article\/00001464\/\">The Planetary Society<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t going to post anything more about the Phoenix Lander, as the media&#8217;s picked it up now, and I don&#8217;t have a lot to add. But then, I saw this photo.. It&#8217;s Phoenix decelerating with its parachute in the Martian atmosphere, taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Not a high quality image, but there&#8217;s\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/26\/phoenix-parachute-photo\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[59,61,42,58],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scitech","tag-mars","tag-phoenix","tag-photos","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}