{"id":10859,"date":"2018-08-09T11:28:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T11:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=10859"},"modified":"2018-08-09T11:34:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T11:34:41","slug":"mars-exploration-fast-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=10859","title":{"rendered":"Mars Exploration Fast Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Here&#8217;s some background information about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/07\/20\/tech\/innovation\/mars-quiz\/index.html\">Mars exploration.<\/a> The United States and the Soviet Union are the only two countries to land a spacecraft on Mars.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><strong><u>Facts:<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\nThere have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hq.nasa.gov\/office\/pao\/History\/marschro.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seven successful US Mars landings:<\/a> Viking 1 and Viking 2 (both 1976), Pathfinder (1997), Spirit and Opportunity (both 2004), Phoenix (2008) and Curiosity (2012).<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The only other country to land a spacecraft on Mars was the Soviet Union in 1971 and 1973.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Here&#8217;s some background information about Mars exploration. The United States and the Soviet Union are the only two countries to land a spacecraft on Mars.Facts:There have been seven successful US Mars landings: Viking 1 and Viking 2 (both 1976), Pathfinder (1997), Spirit and Opportunity (both 2004), Phoenix (2008) and Curiosity (2012). The only other country&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}