{"id":31216,"date":"2016-10-19T17:49:24","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T00:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/exomars-british-scientists-face-six-minutes-of-terror-as-mars-probe-plunges-to-surface-of-red-planet"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:08:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:08:10","slug":"exomars-british-scientists-face-six-minutes-of-terror-as-mars-probe-plunges-to-surface-of-red-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/exomars-british-scientists-face-six-minutes-of-terror-as-mars-probe-plunges-to-surface-of-red-planet","title":{"rendered":"ExoMars: British scientists face \u2018six minutes of terror\u2019 as Mars probe plunges to surface of Red Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/exomars-british-scientists-face-six-minutes-of-terror-as-mars-probe-plunges-to-surface-of-red-planet.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Mars lander touched down late on Wednesday night but was emitting no signal, ground controllers have announced. It was not known whether the craft was intact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lander touched down, that is certain,\u201d Thierry Blancquaert, manager of the European Space Agency\u2019s \u201cSchiaparelli\u201d lander told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether it landed intact, whether it hit a rock or a crater or whether it simply cannot communicate, that I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2016\/10\/19\/exomars-space-probe-schiaparelli-landing-mars-surface-live\/\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2016\/10\/19\/exomars-space-...face-live\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mars lander touched down late on Wednesday night but was emitting no signal, ground controllers have announced. It was not known whether the craft was intact. \u201cThe lander touched down, that is certain,\u201d Thierry Blancquaert, manager of the European Space Agency\u2019s \u201cSchiaparelli\u201d lander told AFP. \u201cWhether it landed intact, whether it hit a rock [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31216","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=31216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65954,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31216\/revisions\/65954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}