{"id":5492,"date":"2024-05-01T14:33:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T21:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/astronomy-and-planetary-science\/?p=5492"},"modified":"2024-08-02T14:34:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T21:34:48","slug":"mission-to-mars-what-a-student-designed-student-built-camera-can-teach-us-about-the-red-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/mission-to-mars-what-a-student-designed-student-built-camera-can-teach-us-about-the-red-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission to Mars: what a student-designed, student-built camera can teach us about the red planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nau.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/VISIONS-1-2.jpeg\" alt=\"Fully assembled and flight qualified VISIONS Flight 1 and Flight 2 instruments prior to packaging for shipping. Credit: APS\/NAU\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not many people in the world can say that something they built is orbiting Mars\u2014especially not college students. Soon, a cross-disciplinary team of about 35 NAU students\u2014most studying planetary science, astronomy, mechanical engineering or electrical engineering\u2014led by faculty members at NAU will be able to claim that accomplishment. The team\u2019s VISIONS (VISible and Infrared ObservatioN System) camera is scheduled to launch as part of NASA\u2019s EscaPADE mission this fall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.nau.edu\/mars-visions-camera\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article at The NAU Review.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not many people in the world can say that something they built is orbiting Mars\u2014especially not college students. Soon, a cross-disciplinary team of about 35 NAU students\u2014most studying planetary science, astronomy, mechanical engineering or electrical engineering\u2014led by faculty members at NAU will be able to claim that accomplishment. The team\u2019s VISIONS (VISible and Infrared ObservatioN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[224,114,297],"class_list":["post-5492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-and-planetary-science","tag-christopher-edwards","tag-mars","tag-visions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5492","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=5492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5493,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5492\/revisions\/5493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}