{"id":9687,"date":"2012-08-04T00:36:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T05:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/?p=9687"},"modified":"2015-06-07T23:35:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T04:35:59","slug":"curiositys-7-minutes-of-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2012\/08\/curiositys-7-minutes-of-terror.html","title":{"rendered":"Curiosity’s 7 Minutes of Terror!!! (Because Catholics Can Dig Science)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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It doesn\u2019t get much cooler than this\u2026<\/p>\n<\/iframe>\n<p>Those guys know how to make a great video, huh? I reckon they\u2019ll be chewing on Rolaids when that is actually happening. Man, there\u2019s a lot of moving parts involved in this landing (scheduled for 0131 on Monday morning Eastern Time). I\u2019ll be praying that this evolution goes off without a hitch.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things I miss about living in Southern California is the annual Open House at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.That\u2019s where my family fell in love with <em>Spirit<\/em> and <em>Opportunity<\/em>, the little Mars rovers that could. Got two hours? Throw this video up on your internet connected television. It\u2019s a lot like being at the Open House.<\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0px none transparent;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/embed\/recorded\/24443188\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"560\" height=\"325\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"padding: 2px 0px 4px; width: 400px; background: #ffffff; display: block; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline; text-align: center;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Video streaming by Ustream<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In my humble opinion, the taxpayer dollars we spend on the programs JPL manages are well worth the cost.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn\u2019t get much cooler than this\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232,23],"tags":[491,490,488,489,92],"class_list":["post-9687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning","category-nature","tag-curiosity-rover","tag-jpl","tag-mars","tag-nasa","tag-science"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Curiosity's 7 Minutes of Terror!!! 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