{"id":468055,"date":"2018-04-27T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=5726d6723123b3137d6fdea884c6a8ee"},"modified":"2018-04-27T10:56:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T14:56:00","slug":"nasa-mars-mission-faces-setback-after-heat-shield-cracks-under-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=468055","title":{"rendered":"NASA Mars Mission Faces Setback After Heat Shield Cracks Under Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2018\/04\/27\/arc-16132-1_pia14835_wide-b17ef8bf723d19b564f665ad82d5ca468be23aa6.jpg?s=600' alt='The heat shield is designed to protect the Mars 2020 mission in the initial stages of its descent and landing.'\/><\/p>\n<p>The heat shield, made of material that&#8217;s as light as balsa wood but can withstand temperatures of nearly 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit, broke during testing earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=606349244' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heat shield, made of material that&#8217;s as light as balsa wood but can withstand temperatures of nearly 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit, broke during testing earlier this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468055","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\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=468055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468143,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468055\/revisions\/468143"}],"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=468055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=468055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=468055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}