{"id":89630,"date":"2019-04-17T11:02:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T18:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/mars-in-the-gobi-desert"},"modified":"2019-04-17T11:02:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T18:02:20","slug":"mars-in-the-gobi-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/mars-in-the-gobi-desert","title":{"rendered":"Mars in the Gobi Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mars-in-the-gobi-desert.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the desert hills of China\u2019s Gansu province, a company called C-Space has just opened \u201cMars Base 1,\u201d a simulated Martian base of operations for future astronauts. Plans for the base, currently an educational facility, include expansion\u2014becoming more of a tourist destination soon, adding a space-themed hotel and restaurant. Photographers were on hand as some of the first student groups arrived to tour this vision of Mars in the China\u2019s Gobi desert.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/photo\/2019\/04\/photos-mars-gobi-desert\/587353\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the desert hills of China\u2019s Gansu province, a company called C-Space has just opened \u201cMars Base 1,\u201d a simulated Martian base of operations for future astronauts. Plans for the base, currently an educational facility, include expansion\u2014becoming more of a tourist destination soon, adding a space-themed hotel and restaurant. Photographers were on hand as some [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89630","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}