{"id":1762,"date":"2012-08-16T20:04:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T02:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2012-08-16T20:04:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T02:04:21","slug":"mars-landing-a-great-succeess-of-science-and-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/2012\/08\/16\/mars-landing-a-great-succeess-of-science-and-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars Landing &#8211; A Great Succeess of Science and Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/panoramas.dk\/mars\/greeley-haven.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1763\" title=\"16-08-2012 6-56-32 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/files\/2012\/08\/16-08-2012-6-56-32-PM-1024x371.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/files\/2012\/08\/16-08-2012-6-56-32-PM-1024x371.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/files\/2012\/08\/16-08-2012-6-56-32-PM-300x108.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/files\/2012\/08\/16-08-2012-6-56-32-PM.jpg 1345w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>This summer has been filled with amazing scientific discoveries: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latinospost.com\/articles\/2889\/20120814\/cern-will-now-focus-on-early-universal-plasma-after-higgs-boson-discovery-video.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Higgs Boson<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineeringnews.co.za\/article\/nasas-curiosity-rover-landed-safely-on-mars-2012-08-17\" target=\"_blank\">Mars Landing<\/a>, only to name a few &#8211; How exciting is that? I especially find it amazing that modern technology helps us understand and appreciate these discoveries at a very different level. For example, this web site above allows us to see what Curiosity rover was able to see on Mars&#8230; This was a very amazingly scientific summer and I am happy so many people are now able to get access to science discoveries in a very different way&#8230; I will certainly be talking about it with my students!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer has been filled with amazing scientific discoveries: Higgs Boson, Mars Landing, only to name a few &#8211; How exciting is that? I especially find it amazing that modern technology helps us understand and appreciate these discoveries at a&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/2012\/08\/16\/mars-landing-a-great-succeess-of-science-and-engineering\/\" class=\"readmore\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mars Landing &#8211; A Great Succeess of Science and Engineering<\/span><span class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6989,6981,236255,236253,2708,6912],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-teaching","category-interactivity-in-the-classroom","category-physics-education","category-science-in-everyday-life","category-teacher-education","category-technology-and-learning","content-layout-excerpt-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1764,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions\/1764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}