{"id":30815,"date":"2013-11-19T12:42:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T20:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=30815"},"modified":"2013-11-19T12:42:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T20:42:45","slug":"burtons-nasa-maven-psa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2013\/11\/burtons-nasa-maven-psa\/","title":{"rendered":"Burton&#8217;s NASA Maven PSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30818\" alt=\"BurtonMarsPDA111913\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/BurtonMarsPDA111913.gif\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em>&#8216;s <strong>LeVar Burton<\/strong> has done a <em>NASA YouTube<\/em> public service announcement explaining the <em>MAVEN<\/em> mission.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN)<\/em> mission will &#8220;explore Mars&#8217; climate history and gather clues about the question scientists have been asking for decades.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8220;<em>MAVEN<\/em> will look at specific processes at Mars that led to the loss of much of its atmosphere&#8230;and <em>MAVEN<\/em> data could tell scientists a lot about the history of climate change on the Red Planet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>NASA<\/em> is thrilled to have LeVar Burton explain this mission to the greater public,&#8221; said <strong>Bert Ulrich<\/strong>,<em> NASA<\/em>&#8216;s multimedia liaison for film and TV collaborations. &#8220;Thanks to Burton&#8217;s engaging talents and passion for space exploration, audiences of all ages will be able to share in the excitement of <em>NASA<\/em>&#8216;s next mission to Mars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>MAVEN<\/em> mission launched yesterday from Cape Canaveral and will arrive on Mars next September.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ijAO0FFExx0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek: The Next Generation&#8216;s LeVar Burton has done a NASA YouTube public service announcement&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2451,4601,6533,2698],"class_list":["post-30815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-burton","tag-mars","tag-maven","tag-nasa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30821,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30815\/revisions\/30821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}