{"id":550880,"date":"2018-12-02T07:40:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T11:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=6b64dae7cd3db951e5b0802cdb299047"},"modified":"2018-12-02T07:40:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T11:40:38","slug":"mars-new-home-a-large-sandbox-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=550880","title":{"rendered":"Mars new home &#8216;a large sandbox&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With InSight safely on the surface of Mars, the mission team at NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is busy learning more about the spacecraft&#8217;s landing site. They knew when InSight landed on Nov. 26 that the spacecraft had touched down on target, a lava plain named Elysium Planitia. Now they&#8217;ve determined that the vehicle sits slightly tilted (about 4 degrees) in a shallow dust- and sand-filled impact crater known as a &#8220;hollow.&#8221; InSight has been engineered to operate on a surface with an inclination up to 15 degrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With InSight safely on the surface of Mars, the mission team at NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is busy learning more about the spacecraft&#8217;s landing site. They knew when InSight landed on Nov. 26 that the spacecraft had touche&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550880","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=550880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550881,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550880\/revisions\/550881"}],"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=550880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}