{"id":2163,"date":"2004-01-21T18:19:12","date_gmt":"2004-01-22T10:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/22\/mars-dead-or-alive\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T15:20:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T23:20:55","slug":"mars-dead-or-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/21\/mars-dead-or-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars Dead or Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12047,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.pbs.org\\\/wgbh\\\/nova\\\/mars&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pbs.org\\\/wgbh\\\/nova\\\/mars&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12048,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.pbs.org\\\/wgbh\\\/nova\\\/mars\\\/program.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260311205130\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.pbs.org\\\/wgbh\\\/nova\\\/mars\\\/program.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pbs.org\\\/wgbh\\\/nova\\\/mars\\\/program.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12049,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/slashdot.org\\\/comments.pl?sid=93702&amp;cid=8042690&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12050,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.pbs.org\\\/wgbh\\\/nova\\\/mars\\\/launchland.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260311205131\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.pbs.org\\\/wgbh\\\/nova\\\/mars\\\/launchland.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pbs.org\\\/wgbh\\\/nova\\\/mars\\\/launchland.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve got an hour to kill and a broadband connection, the NOVA program &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/mars\/\" title=\"Mars Dead or Alive\">Mars Dead or Alive<\/a>&#8221; is freely available on the web! I&#8217;ve just spent the past hour watching it, and it&#8217;s fascinating, going from the construction of the two rovers and the problems encountered during their assembly and testing, through both launches, and right up to Spirit&#8217;s successful landing on Mars.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/mars\/\" title=\"Mars Dead or Alive\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2004\/01\/graphics\/mars-home.jpg\" height=\"69\" width=\"252\" alt=\"Mars Dead or Alive\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To watch the program, just go to the &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/mars\/program.html\" title=\"Watch the program\">Watch the program<\/a>&#8216; section of the site, choose your connection type, and kick back.<\/p>\n<p>Tip for QuckTime Pro users: Rather than watching the program in the small pop-up window that their site provides, just open up QuickTime Player, choose <strong>File: Open URL in New Player&#8230;<\/strong>, and paste in this URL: <code>http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/mars\/media2\/mars.mov<\/code>. Once you&#8217;ve done that, you can then choose <strong>Movie: Present movie&#8230;<\/strong> and watch the entire program full-screen.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=93702&amp;cid=8042690\" title=\"\/.: IPFreely: NOVA: Mars Dead or Alive\">IPFreely<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Also available in the site is &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/mars\/launchland.html\" title=\"From Launch to Landing\">From Launch to Landing<\/a>&#8216;, a stunning nine-minute long computer animation of Spirit&#8217;s journey from liftoff to its first moments trekking across the Martian landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve got an hour to kill and a broadband connection, the NOVA program &#8216;Mars Dead or Alive&#8217; is freely available on the web!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[514,8],"class_list":["post-2163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-science","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}