{"id":566244,"date":"2019-01-10T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=3351847cb7ba060657a939f403ba0450"},"modified":"2019-01-10T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T10:00:00","slug":"fifteen-years-imaging-the-red-planet-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=566244","title":{"rendered":"Fifteen years imaging the Red Planet"},"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\/2019\/01\/fifteen_years_imaging_the_red_planet\/19180033-5-eng-GB\/Fifteen_years_imaging_the_Red_Planet_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nOn 25 December 2003, ESA\u2019s Mars Express entered orbit around the Red Planet. The spacecraft began returning the first images from orbit using its High Resolution Stereo Camera just a couple of weeks later, and over the course of its fifteen year history has captured thousands of images covering the globe.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis video compilation highlights some of the stunning scenes revealed by this long-lived mission. From breathtaking horizon-to-horizon views to the close-up details of ice- and dune-filled craters, and from the polar ice caps and water-carved valleys to ancient volcanoes and plunging canyons, Mars Express has traced billions of years of geological history and evolution.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFor regular news and image releases from Mars Express see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Science\/Mars_Express\" >http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Science\/Mars_Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2019\/01\/fifteen_years_imaging_the_red_planet\/19180033-5-eng-GB\/Fifteen_years_imaging_the_Red_Planet_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nOn 25 December 2003, ESA&rsquo;s Mars Express entered orbit around the Red Planet. The spacecraft began returning the first images from orbit using its High Resolution Stereo Camera just a couple of weeks later, and over the course of its fifteen year history has captured thousands of images covering the globe.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis video compilation highlights some of the stunning scenes revealed by this long-lived mission. From breathtaking horizon-to-horizon views to the close-up details of ice- and dune-filled craters, and from the polar ice caps and water-carved valleys to ancient volcanoes and plunging canyons, Mars Express has traced billions of years of geological history and evolution.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFor regular news and image releases from Mars Express see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Science\/Mars_Express\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Science\/Mars_Express<\/a><\/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-566244","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\/566244","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=566244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566245,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566244\/revisions\/566245"}],"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=566244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=566244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=566244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}