{"id":830,"date":"2012-08-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/08\/05\/take-to-the-stars-with-cosmos\/"},"modified":"2012-08-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T16:00:00","slug":"take-to-the-stars-with-cosmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/08\/05\/take-to-the-stars-with-cosmos\/","title":{"rendered":"Take to the stars with Cosmos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<p>Tonight, NASA will attempt to land the Curiosity rover on Mars to investigate whether the red planet once housed life. It&#8217;s a risky and hilariously expensive ($2.5 billion!), but the rover is part of an important mission to discover whether or not we are alone in the universe.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody has explored that goal in popular media like Carl Sagan, host of the 1980 miniseries <i>Cosmos<\/i>. The series is a unique fusion of science, history, and politics that still stands as the high watermark for popular science.<\/p>\n<p>As we re-explore the chances of extraterrestrial life, now&#8217;s as good of a time as any to watch (or rewatch!) Sagan&#8217;s legendary series.<\/p>\n<p>HU DVD 4271 &#8211; 4277 &#8212; Cosmos\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, NASA will attempt to land the Curiosity rover on Mars to investigate whether the red planet once housed life. It&#8217;s a risky and hilariously expensive ($2.5 billion!), but the rover is part of an important mission to discover whether or not we are alone in the universe. Nobody has explored that goal in popular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[290,355],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-related-movies","tag-timely-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}