{"id":30946,"date":"2016-10-11T10:48:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T17:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/two-space-agencies-will-attempt-an-historic-landing-on-mars-next-week"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:10:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:10:14","slug":"two-space-agencies-will-attempt-an-historic-landing-on-mars-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/two-space-agencies-will-attempt-an-historic-landing-on-mars-next-week","title":{"rendered":"Two space agencies will attempt an historic landing on Mars next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/two-space-agencies-will-attempt-an-historic-landing-on-mars-next-week.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The European Space Agency has teamed up with Russia\u2019s Roscosmos program to land a spacecraft on Mars on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Operations\/Schiaparelli_readied_for_Mars_landing\">Wednesday, October 19<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If they stick the landing, they\u2019ll join NASA as the only space agencies in history to successfully land a spacecraft on Mars. And that will only be the beginning \u2014 the lander will then start a whole new quest to search for signs of life on the Red Planet.<\/p>\n<p>If the landing is a success, it will actually see the agencies put one spacecraft up into Mars\u2019s atmosphere, and one onto its surface, giving scientists a rare opportunity to record conditions above and below the planet simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/two-space-agencies-will-attempt-an-historic-mars-landing-next-week\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/two-space-agencies-will-attempt-...-next-week<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Space Agency has teamed up with Russia\u2019s Roscosmos program to land a spacecraft on Mars on Wednesday, October 19. If they stick the landing, they\u2019ll join NASA as the only space agencies in history to successfully land a spacecraft on Mars. And that will only be the beginning \u2014 the lander will then [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30946","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30946"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66036,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30946\/revisions\/66036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}