{"id":342,"date":"2008-05-25T06:01:45","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T11:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/342"},"modified":"2008-05-25T06:01:45","modified_gmt":"2008-05-25T11:01:45","slug":"hitchcock-goes-to-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/342","title":{"rendered":"Hitchcock Goes To Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2008\/TECH\/space\/05\/23\/mars.lander\/index.html\">NASA preps for &#8216;7 minutes of terror&#8217; on Mars<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]hey have to get the lander on the ground, and that&#8217;s where the worry comes in. In fact, they have a name for it in the Mars exploration community: &#8220;seven minutes of terror.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seven minutes is all it takes for a spacecraft travelling neary 13,000 miles per hour to hit the Martian atmosphere, slam on the brakes and reach the ground.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s this tidbit, with the resulting obligatory snark:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Historically, 55 percent of Mars missions have ended in failure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll bet the odds go up when you don&#8217;t mix up metric and English units.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Good luck to them.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: SUCCESS!  <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap080525m.html\">Animation of the landing and some subsequent operations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA preps for &#8216;7 minutes of terror&#8217; on Mars [T]hey have to get the lander on the ground, and that&#8217;s where the worry comes in. In fact, they have a name for it in the Mars exploration community: &#8220;seven minutes &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/342\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}