{"id":19028,"date":"2017-03-21T00:43:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T16:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/arcadia-on-the-map-for-future-mars-landing-sites-spacex-thinks-ice-is-nice\/"},"modified":"2017-03-21T00:43:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T16:43:41","slug":"arcadia-on-the-map-for-future-mars-landing-sites-spacex-thinks-ice-is-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/arcadia-on-the-map-for-future-mars-landing-sites-spacex-thinks-ice-is-nice\/","title":{"rendered":"Arcadia on the map: For future Mars landing sites, SpaceX thinks ice is nice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2019s current favorite place to land on Mars is reportedly Arcadia Planitia, which combines flat terrain, potential deposits of water ice and an equatorial region well-suited for solar power. According to Space News, that\u2019s the word from SpaceX\u2019s Paul Wooster, who\u2019s working with NASA to identify potential landing sites for&nbsp;the privately held company\u2019s Red Dragon missions to Mars. The first such mission is now expected no earlier than 2020. SpaceX founder Elon Musk wants to send spaceships full of settlers to the Red Planet, starting as early as the mid-2020s. Will that turn&nbsp;Arcadia into a Martian utopia?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_318955\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-318955\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-318955\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/arcadia-2.jpg\" alt=\"Arcadia Planitia\" width=\"624\" height=\"442\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-318955\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This color-coded elevation map of Mars\u2019 equatorial region shows Arcadia Planitia at upper left, northwest of Olympus Mons and the Tharsis shield volcanoes. (USGS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2019s current favorite place to land on Mars is reportedly Arcadia Planitia, which combines flat terrain, potential deposits of water ice and an equatorial region well-suited for solar power. According to Space News, that\u2019s the word from SpaceX\u2019s Paul Wooster, who\u2019s working with NASA to identify potential landing sites for&nbsp;the privately held company\u2019s Red Dragon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[367,3241,316],"class_list":["post-19028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-mars","tag-red-dragon","tag-spacex"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}