{"id":10918,"date":"2012-08-07T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T23:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/curiositys-descent-to-mars\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T05:23:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T19:23:15","slug":"curiositys-descent-to-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/curiositys-descent-to-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Curiosity&#8217;s Descent to Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/roverchute.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/roverchute.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Maybe it&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve done some parachuting myself&#8230; I was really blown away by this picture. Taken by the Mars Orbiter as Curiosity descended.<\/span><\/b><br \/> <b><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/> <\/span><\/b> <b><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And here is the initial low-res video from the rover itself. Very cool. <\/span><\/b><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"259\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UcGMDXy-Y1I\" width=\"460\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve done some parachuting myself&#8230; I was really blown away by this picture. Taken by the Mars Orbiter as Curiosity descended. And here is the initial low-res video from the rover itself. Very cool. Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke Our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/curiositys-descent-to-mars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Curiosity&#8217;s Descent to Mars&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308,32,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mars","category-space-program","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10920,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10918\/revisions\/10920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}