{"id":262,"date":"2013-07-09T12:47:09","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T12:47:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-06-01T10:04:34","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T10:04:34","slug":"contentnasa-mars-rover-curiosity-begins-delayed-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Begins Delayed Road Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It took longer than expected, but NASA&#8217;s Curiosity rover is finally heading toward a Martian mountain.<br \/>\nThe nuclear-powered, six-wheel rover drove a total of 190 feet (58 meters) since July Fourth, leaving the spot where it spent the past seven months examining rocks and dirt.<br \/>\nCuriosity landed last August in Gale Crater near Mars&#8217; equator and has already found an environment that scientists say contains all the right ingredients for microbes to survive.<br \/>\nThe delay in heading to Mount Sharp was mostly due to unexpected discoveries. As pleased as scientists are with the progress so far, they&#8217;re itching to study the layers of rock at the base of the mountain.<br \/>\nThe trek is expected to last nine months to a year with several stops along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took longer than expected, but NASA&#8217;s Curiosity rover is finally heading toward a Martian mountain.<br \/>\nThe nuclear-powered, six-wheel rover drove a total of 190 feet (58 meters) since July Fourth, leaving the spot where it spent the past seven months examining rocks and dirt.<br \/>\nCuriosity landed last August in Gale Crater near Mars&#8217; equator and has already found an environment that scientists say contains all the right ingredients for microbes to survive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":10236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}