{"id":20267,"date":"2015-12-27T19:47:23","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T03:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/nasas-next-mars-mission-has-been-called-off"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:17:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:17:09","slug":"nasas-next-mars-mission-has-been-called-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/nasas-next-mars-mission-has-been-called-off","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s next Mars mission has been called off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-next-mars-mission-has-been-called-off.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A U.S. science satellite slated to launch to Mars in March has been grounded due to a leak in a key research instrument, NASA said on Tuesday, creating uncertainty about the future of a widely anticipated effort to study the interior of the planet.<\/p>\n<p>The spacecraft, known as InSight, was designed to help scientists learn more about the formation of rocky planets, including Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The cancellation raises questions about the future of the research effort, as it will be another two years before Earth and Mars are favourably aligned for a launch. NASA has not said if it will have funding for the program, which was capped at $425 million US.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/technology\/mars-insight-1.3376624\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. science satellite slated to launch to Mars in March has been grounded due to a leak in a key research instrument, NASA said on Tuesday, creating uncertainty about the future of a widely anticipated effort to study the interior of the planet. The spacecraft, known as InSight, was designed to help scientists learn [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20267","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\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20267"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68957,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20267\/revisions\/68957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}