{"id":243856,"date":"2016-11-29T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=dd4b4914cb60f720c5420a783bf0590c"},"modified":"2016-11-29T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T10:30:00","slug":"first-detection-of-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=243856","title":{"rendered":"First detection of atmospheric carbon dioxide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2016\/11\/first_detection_of_atmospheric_carbon_dioxide\/16540051-1-eng-GB\/First_detection_of_atmospheric_carbon_dioxide_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter\u2019s Atmospheric Chemistry Suite made test measurements of the martian atmosphere on 22 November 2016 at thermal-infrared wavelengths. Such measurements will provide information on dust and ice particles, temperature profiles and concentration of gases. The inset zooms in to part of the graph with a carbon dioxide feature characteristic of the atmospheric structure, which will be useful in probing the thermal structure of the atmosphere.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe data were collected as part of an eight-day campaign to test the orbiter\u2019s science instruments for the first time since arriving at the Red Planet on 19 October 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2016\/11\/first_detection_of_atmospheric_carbon_dioxide\/16540051-1-eng-GB\/First_detection_of_atmospheric_carbon_dioxide_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThe ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter&rsquo;s Atmospheric Chemistry Suite made test measurements of the martian atmosphere on 22 November 2016 at thermal-infrared wavelengths. Such measurements will provide information on dust and ice particles, temperature profiles and concentration of gases. The inset zooms in to part of the graph with a carbon dioxide feature characteristic of the atmospheric structure, which will be useful in probing the thermal structure of the atmosphere.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe data were collected as part of an eight-day campaign to test the orbiter&rsquo;s science instruments for the first time since arriving at the Red Planet on 19 October 2016.<\/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-243856","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\/243856","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=243856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243857,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243856\/revisions\/243857"}],"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=243856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}