{"id":550695,"date":"2018-11-26T16:31:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T20:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=07ab442f72cadce6c220ac5ee035307d"},"modified":"2018-11-26T16:31:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T20:31:58","slug":"nasas-mars-insight-probe-pierces-planets-atmosphere-to-begin-descent-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=550695","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s Mars InSight probe pierces planet&#8217;s atmosphere to begin descent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NASA Mars science probe InSight streaked into the planet&#8217;s thin atmosphere on Monday and began its descent to the surface in a make-or-break landing attempt that was expected to end in a touchdown within seven minutes, mission controllers said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=Nm9H6nVEQ70:BoGLs741OHw:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=Nm9H6nVEQ70:BoGLs741OHw:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?i=Nm9H6nVEQ70:BoGLs741OHw:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=Nm9H6nVEQ70:BoGLs741OHw:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?i=Nm9H6nVEQ70:BoGLs741OHw:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/scienceNews\/~4\/Nm9H6nVEQ70\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NASA Mars science probe InSight streaked into the planet&#8217;s thin atmosphere on Monday and began its descent to the surface in a make-or-break landing attempt that was expected to end in a touchdown within seven minutes, mission controllers said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550695","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=550695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550696,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550695\/revisions\/550696"}],"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=550695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}