{"id":108729,"date":"2020-06-15T20:10:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T03:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/nasa-is-hiring-someone-to-help-bring-martian-samples-back-to-earth"},"modified":"2020-06-15T20:10:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T03:10:06","slug":"nasa-is-hiring-someone-to-help-bring-martian-samples-back-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/nasa-is-hiring-someone-to-help-bring-martian-samples-back-to-earth","title":{"rendered":"NASA is hiring someone to help bring Martian samples back to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-is-hiring-someone-to-help-bring-martian-samples-back-to-earth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA is planning to bring Martian samples back to Earth \u2014 and they\u2019re looking for someone to lead the mission.<\/p>\n<p>The Mars Sample Return (MSR) program, set to take place over the next decade, aims to collect samples of Martian rock, soil, and atmosphere for analysis and testing on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>NASA has previously sent several rovers to Mars, but no program or robot has ever been able to bring back samples, which could give researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/12\/06\/world\/life-on-mars-evidence-scn\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">new insights into the Red Planet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is planning to bring Martian samples back to Earth \u2014 and they\u2019re looking for someone to lead the mission. The Mars Sample Return (MSR) program, set to take place over the next decade, aims to collect samples of Martian rock, soil, and atmosphere for analysis and testing on Earth. NASA has previously sent several [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}