{"id":1449,"date":"2008-05-28T20:30:42","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T01:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2008-05-28T20:30:42","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T01:30:42","slug":"see-our-robots-invade-other-planets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1449","title":{"rendered":"See Our Robots Invade Other Planets"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m late to the party with this one, but it’s still worth talking about: NASA’s Phoenix probe, sent to Mars to examine the history of water on Mars<\/a>, landed safely on May 25th. Not only have we successfully sent another probe to the red planet, we got a picture of it as it deployed its chute<\/a>. Normally we have to make do with NASA-generated images<\/a>, but not this time. <\/p>\n

Phil Plait has a whole lot of Phoenix information over at Bad Astronomy<\/a>. Note especially this entry<\/a>, where he notes, “Think on this, and think on it carefully: you are seeing a manmade object falling gracefully and with intent to the surface of an alien world, as seen by another manmade object already circling that world, both of them acting robotically, and both of them hundreds of million of kilometers away.”<\/p>\n

Or, if you are all about tiny bite-sized parcels of information, you can follow Phoenix on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m late to the party with this one, but it’s still worth talking about: NASA’s Phoenix probe, sent to Mars to examine the history of water on Mars, landed safely on May 25th. Not only have we successfully sent another probe to the red planet, we got a picture of it as it deployed its … Continue reading See Our Robots Invade Other Planets<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t