{"id":109833,"date":"2020-07-12T16:24:06","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T23:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/countdown-to-mars-launch-of-the-nasa-2020-perseverance-rover"},"modified":"2020-07-13T01:05:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T08:05:39","slug":"countdown-to-mars-launch-of-the-nasa-2020-perseverance-rover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/countdown-to-mars-launch-of-the-nasa-2020-perseverance-rover","title":{"rendered":"Countdown To Mars: Launch of the NASA 2020 Perseverance Rover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/countdown-to-mars-launch-of-the-nasa-2020-perseverance-rover.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Team with NASA to send off the Perseverance rover to Mars \u2014 from the convenience of your own home. The mission launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida, this summer, and you\u2019re invited to participate remotely \u2014 with a global, collective launch countdown where you can submit your own videos, take a photo on Mars or next to the rover, dive into an interactive launch packet, and sign up to send your name to Mars on a future space mission.<\/p>\n<p>After a seven-month journey to the Red Planet, the rover will land in <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/nasas-mars-2020-rover-will-hunt-for-evidence-of-life-on-mars-in-microscopic-fossils\/\">Jezero Crater<\/a>, an ancient lakebed with intriguing geology. In its search for <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/astrobiology\/\">astrobiological evidence<\/a> of ancient microbial life, Perseverance will gather rock and soil samples there for future return to Earth. It will also characterize the planet\u2019s climate and geology and pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Perseverance carries the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, a technology demonstration that marks the first attempt at powered, controlled flight on another planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team with NASA to send off the Perseverance rover to Mars \u2014 from the convenience of your own home. The mission launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida, this summer, and you\u2019re invited to participate remotely \u2014 with a global, collective launch countdown where you can submit your own videos, take a photo on Mars or next [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109833","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109851,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109833\/revisions\/109851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}