{"id":243138,"date":"2016-10-05T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=77ace6143dfae376423bcdc284a38b83"},"modified":"2016-10-05T10:03:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T14:03:00","slug":"schiaparellis-descent-to-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=243138","title":{"rendered":"Schiaparelli\u2019s descent to Mars"},"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\/2016\/10\/schiaparelli_s_descent_to_mars\/16167216-2-eng-GB\/Schiaparelli_s_descent_to_Mars_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nVisualisation of the ExoMars Schiaparelli module entering and descending through the martian atmosphere to land on Mars.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSchiaparelli will enter the atmosphere at about 21 000 km\/h and in less than six minutes it will use a heatshield, a parachute and thrusters to slow its descent before touching down in the Meridiani Planum region close to the equator, absorbing the final contact with a crushable structure.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe entire process will take less than six minutes: the animation has been sped up.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSchiaparelli is set to separate from the Trace Gas Orbiter on 16 October, after a seven-month cruise together through space, and will enter the atmosphere on 19 October at 14:42 GMT.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFor an overview of the key timings and altitudes corresponding to the events portrayed in this animation see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinimages\/Images\/2016\/02\/ExoMars_2016_Schiaparelli_descent_sequence_16_9\">Schiaparelli descent sequence graphic<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBoth Schiaparelli and the Mars scenery in this animation were computer generated.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visualisation of the ExoMars Schiaparelli module entering and descending through the martian atmosphere to land on Mars.<\/p>\n<p>Schiaparelli will enter the atmosphere at about 21 000 km\/h and in less than six minutes it will use a heatshield, a p&#8230;<\/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-243138","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\/243138","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=243138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243139,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243138\/revisions\/243139"}],"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=243138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}