{"id":5060,"date":"2023-04-19T10:23:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T17:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/astronomy-and-planetary-science\/?p=5060"},"modified":"2023-05-09T10:25:28","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T17:25:28","slug":"nasa-selects-nau-researcher-for-international-mission-to-martian-moons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/nasa-selects-nau-researcher-for-international-mission-to-martian-moons\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA selects NAU researcher for international mission to Martian moons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nau.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/pic01-768x380.png\" alt=\"Graphic of Mars Moon Exploration mission trajectory plan. \" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher Edwards<\/strong>, an associate professor in the Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, received a six-year, $650,000 grant for the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission awarded by NASA. This goal is to send an uncrewed spacecraft to Mars\u2019 two moons, Phobos and Deimos, to gather information about them. It also will collect surface material from Phobos, a first-of-its-kind attempt.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nau.edu\/edwards-mmx-mission\/\">The NAU Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Edwards, an associate professor in the Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, received a six-year, $650,000 grant for the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission awarded by NASA. This goal is to send an uncrewed spacecraft to Mars\u2019 two moons, Phobos and Deimos, to gather information about them. It also will collect surface material from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[224,248,114,246,245,247],"class_list":["post-5060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-and-planetary-science","tag-christopher-edwards","tag-deimos","tag-mars","tag-mars-moon-exploration","tag-mmx","tag-phobos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5062,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060\/revisions\/5062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}