{"id":243234,"date":"2016-10-17T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=bf380f24e083f012fdaeef20e4ce0664"},"modified":"2016-10-17T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T12:00:00","slug":"schiaparellis-descent-trajectory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=243234","title":{"rendered":"Schiaparelli\u2019s descent trajectory"},"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_trajectory\/16184510-1-eng-GB\/Schiaparelli_s_descent_trajectory_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nAnimation showing the trajectory of Schiaparelli as it makes its final approach to Mars and descends to the planet\u2019s surface on 19 October 2016.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe ExoMars entry, descent and landing demonstrator is expected to enter the atmosphere at 14:42 GMT, at an altitude of about 121 km. In six minutes it will use a heatshield, parachute and thrusters to brake from 21 000 km\/h to a near-standstill 2 m above the surface, where a crushable structure on its underside will absorb the final shock. Schiaparelli will touch down in Meridiani Planum, close to the equator.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe times indicated in the animation are onboard spacecraft times at Mars; the one-way signal travel time on 19 October is just under 10 minutes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Mars texture is based on a combination of NASA Viking and Mars Global Surveyor imagery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2016\/10\/schiaparelli_s_descent_trajectory\/16184510-1-eng-GB\/Schiaparelli_s_descent_trajectory_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nAnimation showing the trajectory of Schiaparelli as it makes its final approach to Mars and descends to the planet&rsquo;s surface on 19 October 2016.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe ExoMars entry, descent and landing demonstrator is expected to enter the atmosphere at 14:42 GMT, at an altitude of about 121 km. In six minutes it will use a heatshield, parachute and thrusters to brake from 21 000 km\/h to a near-standstill 2 m above the surface, where a crushable structure on its underside will absorb the final shock. Schiaparelli will touch down in Meridiani Planum, close to the equator.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe times indicated in the animation are onboard spacecraft times at Mars; the one-way signal travel time on 19 October is just under 10 minutes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Mars texture is based on a combination of NASA Viking and Mars Global Surveyor imagery.<\/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-243234","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\/243234","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=243234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243235,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243234\/revisions\/243235"}],"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=243234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}