{"id":3622,"date":"2012-06-24T02:00:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T07:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/?p=3622"},"modified":"2012-06-24T02:00:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T07:00:15","slug":"challenges-of-getting-to-mars-curiositys-seven-minutes-of-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2012\/06\/24\/challenges-of-getting-to-mars-curiositys-seven-minutes-of-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenges of Getting to Mars: Curiosity&#8217;s Seven Minutes of Terror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the stuff Rube Goldberg machines are made of.  I bet NASA designed this landing sequence because they felt the irresistible urge to out do Hollywood.  I mean, they even named the process like a movie.  Look, here&#8217;s the trailer.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pzqdoXwLBT8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And you know the landing is on August 5th.  It&#8217;s a Sunday and I guess we know what the show topic will be.<\/p>\n<p>Marv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the stuff Rube Goldberg machines are made of. I bet NASA designed this landing sequence because they felt the irresistible urge to out do Hollywood. I mean, they even named the process like a movie. Look, here&#8217;s the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2012\/06\/24\/challenges-of-getting-to-mars-curiositys-seven-minutes-of-terror\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[746,745,743,744,317,356],"class_list":["post-3622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-7-minutes-of-terror","tag-curiosity","tag-jplnews","tag-landing","tag-mars","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe53l-Wq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3622"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3629,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions\/3629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}