{"id":85836,"date":"2018-12-14T14:42:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T22:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/mars-reconnaissance-orbiter-spots-insight-hardware-on-mars"},"modified":"2018-12-14T14:42:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T22:42:49","slug":"mars-reconnaissance-orbiter-spots-insight-hardware-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/mars-reconnaissance-orbiter-spots-insight-hardware-on-mars","title":{"rendered":"Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Spots InSight Hardware on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mars-reconnaissance-orbiter-spots-insight-hardware-on-mars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter may not have managed to spot InSight under its parachute, but it has finally spotted the lander, its parachute, and its heat shield resting on the Martian surface. The images confirm the location of InSight\u2019s landing site, a little to the north and west of the center of the landing ellipse.<\/p>\n<p>First, the fantastic hardware images:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/multimedia\/space-images\/mars\/hirise-images-insight-ESP_058005_1845.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"HiRISE images of InSight hardware on Mars\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mars-reconnaissance-orbiter-spots-insight-hardware-on-mars2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/emily-lakdawalla\/2018\/hirise-insight-mars.html\">http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/emily-lakdawalla\/2018\/hirise-insight-mars.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter may not have managed to spot InSight under its parachute, but it has finally spotted the lander, its parachute, and its heat shield resting on the Martian surface. The images confirm the location of InSight\u2019s landing site, a little to the north and west of the center of the landing ellipse. First, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85836","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}