{"id":2691,"date":"2018-02-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polishscience.pl\/polish-robot-will-fly-to-mars-this-year\/"},"modified":"2018-02-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T11:00:00","slug":"polish-robot-will-fly-to-mars-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/polish-robot-will-fly-to-mars-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish robot will fly to Mars this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The robot constructed by a Polish company Astronika will be one of the three main measuring devices \u00a0taken by the Mars probe as part of the InSight mission. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:#000000; font-family:times new roman; font-size:12pt\">NASA and ESA target to launch the probe on November 26, 2018. The main objectives of the mission are to conduct geophysical research of Mars and to check the nature of the planet&#8217;s nucleus. It prepares the ground for the first manned mission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:#000000; font-family:times new roman; font-size:12pt\">The probe will be equipped with three measuring instruments. One of them is HP3 (Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package), which is a core sampler for measuring the heat from the interior of the planet. It will be drilled up to 5 meters into the soil. The device is 25 mm thick, weighs about 500 grams, and is made from titanium alloys, steel and tungsten.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:#000000; font-family:times new roman; font-size:12pt\">Also other Polish entities were involved in the production processes including: Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Aviation, Institute of Welding, Technical University of Lodz and Warsaw University of Technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:#000000; font-family:times new roman; font-size:12pt\">You can find more about the HP3 device here:<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.astronika.pl\/hp3-mole\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"><u>http:\/\/www.astronika.pl\/hp3-mole<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The robot constructed by a Polish company Astronika will be one of the three main measuring devices \u00a0taken by the Mars probe as part of the InSight mission. NASA and ESA target to launch the probe on November 26, 2018. The main objectives of the mission are to conduct geophysical research of Mars and to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}