{"id":480688,"date":"2018-05-05T04:31:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T08:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=986bac6738c0dd6988e85bd154770595"},"modified":"2018-05-05T04:31:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T08:31:00","slug":"exomars-ready-for-science-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=480688","title":{"rendered":"EXOMARS  ready for science"},"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\/2018\/05\/exomars_ready_for_science\/17500690-2-eng-GB\/EXOMARS_ready_for_science_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;\">\nESA\u2019s Trace Gas Orbiter mission arrived at Mars in October 2016. After a year spent carefully adjusting its position, the spacecraft is now beginning its science operations.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;\">\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;\">\nThe Trace Gas Orbiter\u2019s instruments will be able to look through the atmosphere to identify trace gases \u2013 in particular methane \u2013 which could indicate signs of past or even present life. The orbiter will also act as a relay for rovers on the Martian surface.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;\">\n<b>&nbsp;<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;\">\n<b>A-roll includes footage from mission control and interviews with the ESA mission Project Scientist and Flight Operations Director. B-roll includes soundbites in English, French, Swedish and Dutch.<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;\">\n<b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2018\/05\/exomars_ready_for_science\/17500690-2-eng-GB\/EXOMARS_ready_for_science_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nESA&rsquo;s Trace Gas Orbiter mission arrived at Mars in October 2016. After a year spent carefully adjusting its position, the spacecraft is now beginning its science operations.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Trace Gas Orbiter&rsquo;s instruments will be able to look through the atmosphere to identify trace gases &ndash; in particular methane &ndash; which could indicate signs of past or even present life. The orbiter will also act as a relay for rovers on the Martian surface.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>&nbsp;<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>A-roll includes footage from mission control and interviews with the ESA mission Project Scientist and Flight Operations Director. B-roll includes soundbites in English, French, Swedish and Dutch.<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/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-480688","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\/480688","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=480688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480689,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480688\/revisions\/480689"}],"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=480688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=480688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=480688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}