{"id":8217,"date":"2018-11-03T09:18:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T08:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deconstructed.org.uk\/DeBlog\/?p=8217"},"modified":"2018-11-03T09:18:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T08:18:07","slug":"nasa-launches-a-new-podcast-to-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ivetakrajcirova.com\/?p=8217","title":{"rendered":"NASA Launches a New Podcast to Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ivetakrajcirova.com\/DeBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/InSight-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8218\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ivetakrajcirova.com\/DeBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/InSight-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8219\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On a Mission&#8221; is a new eight-episode podcast series from NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory that follows the InSight mission as the robotic explorer journeys to Mars.\u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/mars.nasa.gov\/insight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>InSight<\/u><\/a>&#8221; it&#8217;s NASA&#8217;s latest spacecraft headed to Mars, scheduled to arrive there on November 26. As always, it&#8217;s a dicey affair, with less than half of previous missions having safely reached their destinations. &#8220;When things go beautifully it looks easy, but it&#8217;s really not easy,&#8221; Sue Smrekar, deputy principal investigator for mission, warns. &#8220;Any kind of exploration is just not easy or guaranteed \u2014 ever.&#8221; That&#8217;s also what makes a mission exciting.<\/p>\n<p>The first two episodes are available now at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/podcasts\">NASA<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/mars.nasa.gov\/insight\/\">InSight<\/a> website, <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/nasa\/sets\/on-a-mission\">SoundCloud<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/on-a-mission\/id1439209054?mt=2\">Apple<\/a> Podcasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[1366,1365,626],"class_list":["post-8217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-exploration","tag-mars","tag-nasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ivetakrajcirova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ivetakrajcirova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ivetakrajcirova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ivetakrajcirova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ivetakrajcirova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ivetakrajcirova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8220,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ivetakrajcirova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8217\/revisions\/8220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ivetakrajcirova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ivetakrajcirova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ivetakrajcirova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}