{"id":19727,"date":"2012-08-05T19:31:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T11:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/curiosity-lands-on-mars-sends-back-its-first-images\/"},"modified":"2012-08-05T19:31:52","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T11:31:52","slug":"curiosity-lands-on-mars-sends-back-its-first-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/curiosity-lands-on-mars-sends-back-its-first-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Curiosity lands on Mars, sends back its first images"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_52757\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52757\" style=\"width: 256px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52757\" title=\"marshadow\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/marshadow.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/marshadow.jpeg 256w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/marshadow-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/marshadow-100x100.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/marshadow-200x200.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-52757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The shadow of Curiosity, as viewed in one of the first images sent back from the rover. (NASA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Now <em>that<\/em> was fun to watch \u2014 even if we couldn\u2019t really see what was going on.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Curiosity scientific rover pulled off an intricate series of maneuvers to land successfully on Mars tonight \u2014 a huge moment for the space agency and the country, and a massive relieve to the team at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>The best part of the live stream on NASA TV was the raucous scene as Curiosity sent signals and then pictures after surviving its famous \u201cSeven Minutes of Terror.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe wheels of Curiosity have begun to blaze the trail for human footprints on Mars,\u201d said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, addressing a news conference after the successful landing.<\/p>\n<p>The news conference is going on now, accessible via this webcast. NASA officials are describing it as an example of American persistence and innovation, and the most ambitious robotic mission ever attempted.<\/p>\n<p>Curiosity will explore the planet to determine whether life could have existed on the planet. Of course, this being 2012, Curiosity has its own Twitter account, where you can follow news and pictures from the Red Planet.<\/p>\n<p>GeekWire\u2019s Emily Shahan is down at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, where a crowd gathered to watch the event, and we\u2019ll have more from the scene there in a follow-up post.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More<\/strong>: New York Times&nbsp;and&nbsp;Wired News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shadow of Curiosity, as viewed in one of the first images sent back from the rover. (NASA) Now that was fun to watch \u2014 even if we couldn\u2019t really see what was going on. NASA\u2019s Curiosity scientific rover pulled off an intricate series of maneuvers to land successfully on Mars tonight \u2014 a huge [&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":[],"class_list":["post-19727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19727"}],"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=19727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}