{"id":312,"date":"2006-06-13T08:08:23","date_gmt":"2006-06-13T08:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/13\/martian-balloons\/"},"modified":"2006-06-13T08:08:23","modified_gmt":"2006-06-13T08:08:23","slug":"martian-balloons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/13\/martian-balloons\/","title":{"rendered":"Martian Balloons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a piece in the <cite>New York Times<\/cite> this morning about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/06\/13\/science\/space\/13mars.html?ex=1307851200&#038;en=90be48d907da4ee8&#038;ei=5088&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss\">German project to send a balloon-borne rover to Mars<\/a> that&#8217;s got a little something for everyone. It&#8217;s a Mars mission, which never gets old, but it&#8217;s also a privately financed project, and thus a nice demonstration of the power of private enterprise, for those who favor private space exploration. It&#8217;s not quite clear to me that what they&#8217;re proposing will work (one or two of the elements sound a little goofy), but they&#8217;re certainly fired up about it.<\/p>\n<p>And really, why shouldn&#8217;t they be? Balloons on Mars are just cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a piece in the New York Times this morning about a German project to send a balloon-borne rover to Mars that&#8217;s got a little something for everyone. It&#8217;s a Mars mission, which never gets old, but it&#8217;s also a privately financed project, and thus a nice demonstration of the power of private enterprise, for&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/13\/martian-balloons\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Martian Balloons<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in_the_news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","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=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}