{"id":79314,"date":"2018-06-06T12:42:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T19:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/nasa-is-announcing-a-new-discovery-from-mars-on-thursday-heres-how-to-watch-it-live"},"modified":"2018-06-06T12:42:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T19:42:21","slug":"nasa-is-announcing-a-new-discovery-from-mars-on-thursday-heres-how-to-watch-it-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/nasa-is-announcing-a-new-discovery-from-mars-on-thursday-heres-how-to-watch-it-live","title":{"rendered":"NASA is announcing a new discovery from Mars on Thursday \u2014 here\u2019s how to watch it live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-is-announcing-a-new-discovery-from-mars-on-thursday-heres-how-to-watch-it-live.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how to watch the announcement live.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Curiosity Rover has found some new and exciting information about Mars, and the space agency is announcing that discovery to the world on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Curiosity Rover launched from Earth in November 2011 and landed on Martian soil on August 6, 2012. It has since been cruising around the red planet\u2019s surface, functioning as a 9-foot-wide roving science machine.<\/p>\n<p>Curiosity has <a href=http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-story-behind-mars-curiosity-rover-2012-12 > a few key tasks on Mars<\/a>: it\u2019s meant to study the Martian climate, check for signs of life, search for ice and water, and serve as a kind of planetary scout to see if Mars could ever sustain human life. The laboratory-on-wheels can also <a href=http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nasa-mars-curiosity-rover-selfie-from-gale-crater-and-mount-sharp-2018-2 > take an excellent selfie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/watch-nasa-mars-curiosity-rover-announcement-live-2018-6?utm_content=buffer9a034&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/watch-nasa-mars-curiosity-rov...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s how to watch the announcement live. NASA\u2019s Curiosity Rover has found some new and exciting information about Mars, and the space agency is announcing that discovery to the world on Thursday. The Curiosity Rover launched from Earth in November 2011 and landed on Martian soil on August 6, 2012. It has since been cruising [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79314","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}