{"id":2648,"date":"2008-05-26T07:07:24","date_gmt":"2008-05-26T07:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/05\/26\/missed-it-by-that-much\/"},"modified":"2008-05-26T07:07:24","modified_gmt":"2008-05-26T07:07:24","slug":"missed-it-by-that-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/05\/26\/missed-it-by-that-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Missed It by That Much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, the Martians go and helpfully draw a box on the ground as a target for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news.cfm?release=2008-82\">Phoenix landing<\/a>, and what do they do? They land next to it, not in it. Way to go, NASA.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-755cef5eb2191cdde073cebe477511a7-false_color_postcard_edr_516-387.jpg\" alt=\"i-755cef5eb2191cdde073cebe477511a7-false_color_postcard_edr_516-387.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I bet if they hadn&#8217;t screwed up the unit conversions, they would&#8217;ve hit it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>(The square pattern on the ground is really something to do with the water ice that the mission is there to look for&#8211; it&#8217;s a natural phenomenon, and a good sign for the mission.<\/p>\n<p>(It just looks like a landing zone drawn by space aliens.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the Martians go and helpfully draw a box on the ground as a target for the Phoenix landing, and what do they do? They land next to it, not in it. Way to go, NASA. I bet if they hadn&#8217;t screwed up the unit conversions, they would&#8217;ve hit it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,33,11,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-in_the_news","category-science","category-space","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}