{"id":518,"date":"2011-11-11T09:27:16","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T09:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lewisdartnell.com\/en-gb\/?p=518"},"modified":"2011-11-11T09:27:16","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T09:27:16","slug":"microbes-to-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lewisdartnell.com\/en-gb\/2011\/11\/microbes-to-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Microbes to Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lewis.dsruptiv.net\/en-gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Microbes_to_Mars.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-316\" alt=\"Microbes_to_Mars\" src=\"http:\/\/lewis.dsruptiv.net\/en-gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Microbes_to_Mars.jpg\" width=\"196\" height=\"208\" \/><\/a>Russian space scientists are currently locked in a race against time. The Fobos-Grunt space probe was launched successfully on Tuesday, but then failed to fire its own rocket engine to leave Earth orbit. The unmanned spacecraft is currently stranded just above our heads, and the rocket scientists have only a fortnight to successfully contact the stricken probe and fire its propulsion system before the batteries fail and it reenters the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere as an expensive shooting star.<\/p>\n<p>Read full story on The Huffington Post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/intelligence-squared-if-conference\/fobos-grunt-mars_b_1088408.html\">website<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"StumbleUpon\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"Lewis_Dartnell\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Microbes%20to%20Mars\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian space scientists are currently locked in a race against time. 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