{"id":1602,"date":"2007-09-12T20:20:28","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T23:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2007-10-06T06:41:52","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T09:41:52","slug":"more-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1602","title":{"rendered":"More space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">C<\/span>BC Radio&#8217;s Bob Fournier touched on the <a href=\"http:\/\/phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu\/\">Phoenix Mars<\/a> today: the mission&#8217;s goal is to find out if the Mars can (and does) support life. Oh no, not again, you say: however, interestingly, Phoenix is landing closer to the (North) pole. Additionally, for a change, the lander is equipped with a miniature lab (sort of like the Viking landers, but then more advanced, because, well, it&#8217;s the 21st century).\n<\/p>\n<p>Via MetaFilter I found this link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cio.com\/article\/print\/135700\">&#8216;Seven Wonders of the IT World&#8217;<\/a>, and frankly, some items on the list have me scratching my head. For example, Voyager I is listed (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1598\">earlier at xsamplex<\/a>). No really. I think most consider the Voyager missions as a tremendous <em>scientific<\/em> achievement. The only interesting quote:\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">How it communicates with Earth: Uses NASA&#8217;s Deep Space Network, a system of antennas around the Earth. There&#8217;s no IM out here: Signals traveling &#8230; take 14 hours one-way to reach Voyager.\n<\/p>\n<p>The trick question: At what speed does sound travel in space and why is that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBC Radio&#8217;s Bob Fournier touched on the Phoenix Mars today: the mission&#8217;s goal is to find out if the Mars can (and does) support life. Oh no, not again, you say: however, interestingly, Phoenix is landing closer to the (North) &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1602\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[81,74,80,82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}