{"id":16842,"date":"2015-09-02T23:25:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T06:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/rethinking-the-martian-why-dust-storms-wouldnt-sabotage-a-real-mars-mission"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:44:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:44:03","slug":"rethinking-the-martian-why-dust-storms-wouldnt-sabotage-a-real-mars-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/rethinking-the-martian-why-dust-storms-wouldnt-sabotage-a-real-mars-mission","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking \u2018The Martian\u2019: Why Dust Storms Wouldn\u2019t Sabotage A Real Mars Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Matt Damon stars as a NASA astronaut stranded on the Martian surface in the forthcoming film adaptation of Andy Weir\u2019s <em>The Martian<\/em>. Credit: Twentieth Century Fox.<\/p>\n<p>Martian dust storms rank among the most impressive in our Solar System. But no matter how menacing they appear from Mars orbit, they\u2019re not likely to cause astronauts to abort future surface missions, says a planetary scientist who studies the phenomena.<\/p>\n<p>Although such storms routinely engulf large swaths of the Red Planet for days at a time, any emergency serious enough to evacuate a crew isn\u2019t likely to be triggered by a dust storm of the sort depicted in the forthcoming film adaptation of Andy Weir\u2019s novel <em>The Martian<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucedorminey\/2015\/08\/31\/rethinking-the-martian-why-dust-storms-wouldnt-sabotage-a-real-mars-mission\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Damon stars as a NASA astronaut stranded on the Martian surface in the forthcoming film adaptation of Andy Weir\u2019s The Martian. Credit: Twentieth Century Fox. Martian dust storms rank among the most impressive in our Solar System. But no matter how menacing they appear from Mars orbit, they\u2019re not likely to cause astronauts to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16842","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\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64323,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16842\/revisions\/64323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}