{"id":643146,"date":"2020-01-14T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=643146"},"modified":"2020-01-14T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T17:00:00","slug":"huygens-landing-spin-mystery-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=643146","title":{"rendered":"Huygens landing spin mystery solved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Visualisation_of_airflow_across_Huygens_replica_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Visualisation of airflow across Huygens replica\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fifteen years ago today, ESA\u2019s Huygens probe made history when it descended to the surface of Saturn\u2019s moon Titan and became the first probe to successfully land on another world in the outer Solar System. However, during its descent, the probe began spinning the wrong way \u2013 and recent tests now reveal why.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Cassini-Huygens\/Huygens_landing_spin_mystery_solved\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Huygens landing spin mystery solved<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen years ago today, ESA\u2019s Huygens probe made history when it descended to the surface of Saturn\u2019s moon Titan and became the first probe to successfully land on another world&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":643147,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643146","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=643146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/643147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=643146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=643146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=643146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}