{"id":14059,"date":"2016-01-03T23:18:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T23:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/mars-polar-lander-launched-2\/"},"modified":"2016-01-03T23:18:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T23:18:36","slug":"mars-polar-lander-launched-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/mars-polar-lander-launched-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars Polar Lander Launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2F2011%2F01%2F03%2Fmars-polar-lander-launched%2Fmarspolarlander%2F\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-139\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-139\" title=\"The Mars Polar Lander\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/95ae2__marspolarlander.jpeg\" width=\"230\" height=\"189\"\/><\/a>January 3, 1999<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMars_Polar_Lander\" target=\"_blank\">Mars Polar Lander<\/a> is launched. The mission ultimately ended in failure during an attempted landing on Mars\u2019 surface. Attempts to re-establish communication with the lander failed after the lander entered Mars\u2019 atmosphere. It has been concluded that the most likely cause of the failure was a software error, causing the lander to crash into the planet. Even though software was the likely culprit, it has not been proven that Microsoft had anything to do with it <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/8ab8a__simple-smile.png\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley c2\"\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/8ab8a__p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/01\/03\/mars-polar-lander-launched\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 3, 1999 The Mars Polar Lander is launched. The mission ultimately ended in failure during an attempted landing on Mars\u2019 surface. Attempts to re-establish communication with the lander failed after the lander entered Mars\u2019 atmosphere. It has been concluded that the most likely cause of the failure was a software error, causing the lander [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[3009,1523,1710,3008],"class_list":["post-14059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-lander","tag-launched","tag-mars","tag-polar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}