{"id":195427,"date":"2019-02-12T12:22:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T12:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2019\/02\/12\/nasa-turns-mars-sniffer-into-data-relay-satellite-for-rovers\/"},"modified":"2019-02-12T12:22:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T12:22:37","slug":"nasa-turns-mars-sniffer-into-data-relay-satellite-for-rovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2019\/02\/12\/nasa-turns-mars-sniffer-into-data-relay-satellite-for-rovers\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA turns Mars sniffer into data-relay satellite for rovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/http:\/\/new.nagalandpost.com\/cms\/gall_content\/no_images_650x.jpg><\/p>\n<p>NASA&rsquo;s atmosphere-sniffing Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission has embarked on a new campaign to tighten its orbit around the red planet to become a data-relay satellite for the US space agency&rsquo;s Mars 2020 rover.<br \/>\nThe operation will reduce the highest point of the spacecraft&rsquo;s elliptical orbit from 6,200 kilometres to 4,500 kilometres above the surface, according to NASA&rsquo;s Goddard Space Flight Center.<br \/>\nNASA engineers will begin lowering the lowest part of the spacecraft&rsquo;s orbit into the Martian upper atmosphere over the next few days by firing its thrusters.<br \/>\nTaking the advantage of drag of the Mars&rsquo; upper atmosphere, NASA engineers over the next few months, will slow the spacecraft gradually, orbit by orbit, Xinhua news agency reported on Monday.<br \/>\nThe orbit of the four-year-old spacecraft MAVEN will not be drastically shorter than its present orbit, but even this small change will significantly improve its communication capabilities.<br \/>\n(IANS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA turns Mars sniffer into data-relay satellite for rovers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}