{"id":692136,"date":"2021-06-03T12:54:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T16:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=692136"},"modified":"2021-06-03T12:54:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T16:54:23","slug":"insight-mars-lander-gets-a-power-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=692136","title":{"rendered":"InSight Mars lander gets a power boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The team behind NASA&#8217;s InSight Mars lander has come up with an innovative way to boost the spacecraft&#8217;s energy at a time when its power levels have been falling. The lander&#8217;s robotic arm trickled sand near one solar panel, helping the wind to carry off some of the panel&#8217;s dust. The result was a gain of about 30 watt-hours of energy per sol, or Martian day.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-06-insight-mars-lander-power-boost.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">InSight Mars lander gets a power boost<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team behind NASA&#8217;s InSight Mars lander has come up with an innovative way to boost the spacecraft&#8217;s energy at a time when its power levels have been falling. The&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692136","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=692136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692136\/revisions"}],"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=692136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}