{"id":238071,"date":"2015-11-12T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=da9696f874b6d21593bca0fe29006791"},"modified":"2015-11-12T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T23:00:00","slug":"andreas-mogensen-mares-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=238071","title":{"rendered":"Andreas Mogensen: MARES sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2015\/11\/andreas_mogensen_mares_sessions\/15679405-1-eng-GB\/Andreas_Mogensen_MARES_sessions_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This timelapse shows ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen working with Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergei Volkov during the iriss mission to unpack, setup, test and then store the MARES muscle-measurement machine in Europe\u2019s space laboratory Columbus on the International Space Station over three days.<br \/>\nThe Muscle Atrophy Research and Exercise System, or MARES for short, is a three-in-one muscle-measurement machine on the International Space Station that monitors astronauts\u2019 muscles as they work out.<br \/>\nMuscle strength decreases during spaceflight and researchers need to know why this happens in order to prepare for long-duration missions and safe space tourism. MARES is an exercise bench that offers detailed information about how muscles behave during spaceflight.<br \/>\nMARES was a large part of Andreas\u2019s ten-day iriss mission to the International Space Station that started 2 September 2015. <br \/>Follow Andreas via <a href=\"http:\/\/andreasmogensen.esa.int\/\">http:\/\/andreasmogensen.esa.int\/<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRead more about the MARES experiment <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/iriss\/?s=MARES\">on the iriss blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2015\/11\/andreas_mogensen_mares_sessions\/15679405-1-eng-GB\/Andreas_Mogensen_MARES_sessions_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>This timelapse shows ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen working with Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergei Volkov during the iriss mission to unpack, setup, test and then store the MARES muscle-measurement machine in Europe&rsquo;s space laboratory Columbus on the International Space Station over three days.<br \/>\nThe Muscle Atrophy Research and Exercise System, or MARES for short, is a three-in-one muscle-measurement machine on the International Space Station that monitors astronauts&rsquo; muscles as they work out.<br \/>\nMuscle strength decreases during spaceflight and researchers need to know why this happens in order to prepare for long-duration missions and safe space tourism. MARES is an exercise bench that offers detailed information about how muscles behave during spaceflight.<br \/>\nMARES was a large part of Andreas&rsquo;s ten-day iriss mission to the International Space Station that started 2 September 2015. <br \/>Follow Andreas via <a href=\"http:\/\/andreasmogensen.esa.int\/\">http:\/\/andreasmogensen.esa.int\/<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRead more about the MARES experiment <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/iriss\/?s=MARES\">on the iriss blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238072,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238071\/revisions\/238072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}