{"id":95845,"date":"2019-09-05T13:42:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T20:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/spacex-working-with-nasa-to-find-mars-landing-sites-for-starship"},"modified":"2019-09-05T13:42:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T20:42:40","slug":"spacex-working-with-nasa-to-find-mars-landing-sites-for-starship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/spacex-working-with-nasa-to-find-mars-landing-sites-for-starship","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Working With NASA to Find Mars Landing Sites for Starship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-working-with-nasa-to-find-mars-landing-sites-for-starship2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Space historian Robert Zimmerman <a href=\"https:\/\/behindtheblack.com\/behind-the-black\/essays-and-commentaries\/spacex-begins-hunt-for-starship-landing-sites-on-mars\/\">came across<\/a> images, with the labels \u201cCandidate Landing Site for SpaceX Starship,\u201d in data from the NASA orbiter.<\/p>\n<p>The images of the Martian surface were taken by a high-res camera system called <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/nasa-just-released-more-than-one-thousand-photos-of-mars-surface\">HiRISE<\/a> onboard the orbiter, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uahirise.org\/ESP_060416_2195\">uploaded<\/a> to the University of Arizona\u2019s website, the institution responsible for operating the camera.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s search for a landing site dates back to 2017, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-starship-mars-landing-sites-new-nasa-photos\/\">according to <em>Teslarati<\/em><\/a>. Over the past two years, the company has narrowed its search to a massive plains region called Arcadia Planitia. Five of the six potential landing sites shown in the new images are inside this zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space historian Robert Zimmerman came across images, with the labels \u201cCandidate Landing Site for SpaceX Starship,\u201d in data from the NASA orbiter. The images of the Martian surface were taken by a high-res camera system called HiRISE onboard the orbiter, and uploaded to the University of Arizona\u2019s website, the institution responsible for operating the camera. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95845","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}