{"id":108815,"date":"2020-06-17T21:45:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T04:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/follow-the-road-to-launch-for-our-next-mission-to-the-red-planet-the-mars-2020-perseverance-rover"},"modified":"2020-06-17T21:45:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T04:45:20","slug":"follow-the-road-to-launch-for-our-next-mission-to-the-red-planet-the-mars-2020-perseverance-rover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/follow-the-road-to-launch-for-our-next-mission-to-the-red-planet-the-mars-2020-perseverance-rover","title":{"rendered":"Follow the road to launch for our next mission to the Red Planet, the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/Vocativ\/videos\/980821902373268\/\" data-width=\"625\" data-allowfullscreen=\"false\" data-autoplay=\"false\"><\/div>\n<p>Administrator Jim Bridenstine, leadership and a panel of scientists and engineers will preview the upcoming mission at 2 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, June 17. Submit your questions during the briefing using <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/asknasa?__eep__=6&source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG\" data-ft=\"{\u201d type\u201d:104,\u201d tn\u201d:\u201d*N\u201d}\"> #AskNASA<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Perseverance is a robotic scientist that will search for signs of past microbial life on Mars and characterize the planet\u2019s climate and geology. It will also collect rock and soil samples for future return to Earth and pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet. The mission is scheduled to launch from Space Launch Complex 41 at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 9:15 a.m. EDT July 20. It will land at Mars\u2019 Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021. <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/countdowntomars?__eep__=6&source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG\" data-ft=\"{\u201d type\u201d:104,\u201d tn\u201d:\u201d*N\u201d}\"> #CountdownToMars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Administrator Jim Bridenstine, leadership and a panel of scientists and engineers will preview the upcoming mission at 2 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, June 17. Submit your questions during the briefing using #AskNASA! Perseverance is a robotic scientist that will search for signs of past microbial life on Mars and characterize the planet\u2019s climate and geology. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,493,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-climatology","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108815","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}