{"id":120489,"date":"2021-03-12T12:23:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T20:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/nasa-mars-scientists-spur-girls-to-reach-for-the-stars"},"modified":"2021-03-12T12:23:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T20:23:46","slug":"nasa-mars-scientists-spur-girls-to-reach-for-the-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/nasa-mars-scientists-spur-girls-to-reach-for-the-stars","title":{"rendered":"NASA Mars scientists spur girls to \u2018reach for the stars\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-mars-scientists-spur-girls-to-reach-for-the-stars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Space roboticist Vandi Verma, who operates the Perseverance\u2014the most advanced astrobiology lab ever sent to another world\u2014as it roams Mars looking for signs of ancient microbial life, said unconscious bias was also a factor in shaping aspirations. \u201cDon\u2019t make assumptions about what a child may be interested in because of their gender or race,\u201d she said. \u201cDon\u2019t buy the Lego just for the boy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space roboticist Vandi Verma, who operates the Perseverance\u2014the most advanced astrobiology lab ever sent to another world\u2014as it roams Mars looking for signs of ancient microbial life, said unconscious bias was also a factor in shaping aspirations. \u201cDon\u2019t make assumptions about what a child may be interested in because of their gender or race,\u201d she [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120489","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=120489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}