{"id":118587,"date":"2021-01-16T06:22:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T14:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/nasas-attempt-to-burrow-into-mars-met-2-insurmountable-obstacles-cement-like-soil-and-an-unexpected-energy-shortage"},"modified":"2021-01-16T06:22:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T14:22:54","slug":"nasas-attempt-to-burrow-into-mars-met-2-insurmountable-obstacles-cement-like-soil-and-an-unexpected-energy-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/nasas-attempt-to-burrow-into-mars-met-2-insurmountable-obstacles-cement-like-soil-and-an-unexpected-energy-shortage","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s attempt to burrow into Mars met 2 insurmountable obstacles: cement-like soil and an unexpected energy shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-attempt-to-burrow-into-mars-met-2-insurmountable-obstacles-cement-like-soil-and-an-unexpected-energy-shortage.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>InSight lander\u2019s \u201cmole\u201d was unable to hammer through the Martian soil, and unusually dusty solar panels meant the robot was generating less power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>InSight lander\u2019s \u201cmole\u201d was unable to hammer through the Martian soil, and unusually dusty solar panels meant the robot was generating less power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1633,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-solar-power","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118587","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\/402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}