{"id":797,"date":"2018-11-26T08:49:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T12:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/?p=797"},"modified":"2018-11-26T08:51:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T12:51:51","slug":"mars-landing-interplanetary-cubesats-to-broadcast-touchdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/26\/mars-landing-interplanetary-cubesats-to-broadcast-touchdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars landing! Interplanetary cubesats to broadcast touchdown…."},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Today, Monday, Nov. 26th, NASA will attempt to land a new robot on the planet Mars.<\/p>\n

Named “InSight<\/strong>,” the lander will tear through the Red Planet’s atmosphere, shedding more than 12,000 mph of velocity is just under 7 minutes.<\/p>\n

For the first time, a pair of interplanetary cubesats nicknamed “WALL-E” and “Eva” will relay signals from the landing in near-real time.<\/p>\n

Find out how to watch on today’s edition of\u00a0Spaceweather.com<\/a><\/p>\n

WATCH THE MARS LANDING TODAY:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Get ready for another 7 minutes of terror. Today, a NASA robot named “InSight” will attempt to land on Mars–a process that involves screaming through the red planet’s atmosphere in a fireball, shedding more than 12,000 mph of velocity. For the first time, two interplanetary cubesats (“WALL-E” and “Eva”<\/a>) will help NASA broadcast the landing.\u00a0Tune into NASA TV<\/a>\u00a0starting at 2 p.m. EST for full coverage:\u00a0https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/nasatv\/index.html#public<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, Monday, Nov. 26th, NASA will attempt to land a new robot on the planet Mars. Named “InSight,” the lander will tear through the Red Planet’s atmosphere, shedding more than 12,000 mph of velocity is just under 7 minutes. For Read more\u2026 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}