{"id":29,"date":"2008-05-25T18:45:25","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T23:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2008-07-05T21:38:02","modified_gmt":"2008-07-06T02:38:02","slug":"phoenix-lander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/25\/phoenix-lander\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Lander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openthefuture.com\/2008\/05\/mars_need_robots.html\">Open the Future<\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZGpJiIO4lIE&amp;hl=en&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZGpJiIO4lIE&amp;hl=en&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>3D Animation of the <a href=\"http:\/\/phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu\/\">Phoenix Lander<\/a>, due to land on Mars in about 17 hours.<\/p>\n<p>This expedition promising interesting results. It&#8217;ll be our first chance to sample soil beneath the Martian surface as it carries on board a digging arm capable of digging a trench half a metre deep. In addition, it carries a wet chemistry lab, a mass spectrometer, and <a href=\"http:\/\/phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu\/science05.php\">several other instruments<\/a>, allowing it to analyze whatever it finds.<\/p>\n<p>Not a lot is known about the soil on Mars. Take, for example, <a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap071218.html\">this photo<\/a>, taken by the Spirit rover. It shows a surprisingly pale soil rich in silica found just beneath the red soil surface. It wasn&#8217;t found through any deliberate effort, rather, it was spotted when, at one point, the rover&#8217;s camera was brought to bear on the trail left by its wheel in the soil. Hopefully this mission will result in a lot more information about the role and amount of water in Mars&#8217; climate and geology. If we&#8217;re lucky, it&#8217;ll give much more conclusive evidence of whether or not there&#8217;s ever been life on Mars..<\/p>\n<p>For those who are really geeky, there&#8217;ll be live footage of the NASA mission during the landing available from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/nasatv\/index.html\">NASA TV<\/a> on Monday from about 10am onwards<\/p>\n<p>Either way, here&#8217;s hoping the landing goes well..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via Open the Future 3D Animation of the Phoenix Lander, due to land on Mars in about 17 hours. This expedition promising interesting results. It&#8217;ll be our first chance to sample soil beneath the Martian surface as it carries on board a digging arm capable of digging a trench half a metre deep. In addition,\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/25\/phoenix-lander\/\">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":[41,59,62,67],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scitech","tag-astronomy","tag-mars","tag-science","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"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=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}