{"id":63177,"date":"2026-07-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/?guid=574fceba83399a8965bb7682f1db97a0"},"modified":"2026-07-24T17:20:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T17:20:03","slug":"this-week-in-space-live-the-viking-mars-landings-50-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2026\/07\/24\/this-week-in-space-live-the-viking-mars-landings-50-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week In Space LIVE: The Viking Mars landings 50 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"\n                            \n                            <article>\n                                <div class=\"youtube-video\" data-nosnippet ><div class=\"video-aspect-box\"><iframe data-lazy-priority=\"high\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/w57xswdkjcc\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><p>Hey, Space Fans! Every weekend here at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/\"><u>Space.com<\/u><\/a>, you may have noticed we highlight the latest episode of the podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/twit.tv\/shows\/this-week-in-space\" ><u>This Week In Space<\/u><\/a>, a TWiT show co-hosted by yours truly and my friend and colleague Rod Pyle, a space historian and editor of the <a href=\"https:\/\/nss.org\/\" ><u>National Space Society<\/u><\/a> magazine Ad Astra. <\/p><p>This Week In Space episodes usually drop each Saturday, but this week we're doing something a bit different. To mark the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/astronomy\/mars\/did-viking-1-find-life-on-mars-50-years-ago-heres-why-the-debate-continues\"><u>50th anniversary of NASA's Viking landings<\/u><\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18234-viking-1.html\"><u>Viking 1<\/u><\/a> touched down on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/astronomy\/solar-system\/mars\"><u>Mars<\/u><\/a> on July 20, 1976), Rod and I will host a special live taping of the podcast to discuss all things Martian<strong> starting at 1:30 p.m. EDT (1730 GMT)<\/strong>. It should last up to 90 minutes.<\/p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/1OTA8f51.html\" id=\"1OTA8f51\" title=\"Viking 1: The First Successful Landing on Mars | NASA Look Back\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><p>Joining us on the podcast will be:<\/p><ul><li><strong>Dr. Pascal Lee<\/strong>, a planetary scientist, geologist and artist with the SETI Institute, Mars Institute and NASA Ames Research Center.<\/li><li><strong>Dr. Penny Boston<\/strong>, an astrobiologist and speleologist (the study of caves) with the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.<\/li><\/ul><p>During our discussion, we'll touch on the personal and scientific impacts of NASA's Viking Mars landings and look at where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/13558-historic-mars-missions.html\"><u>Mars exploration<\/u><\/a> may go in the modern age. We might even discuss the best places for the hunt for signs of life: the surface or inside Martian caves?<\/p><p>So if you're a Mars fan or a casual space aficionado, join us <strong>today at 1:30 p.m. EDT <\/strong>to get a detailed look at NASA's Viking Mars landings and their lasting impact on Martian exploration.<\/p>\n                                                            <\/article>\n                            \n                        ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tune in today, July 24, at 1:30 p.m. ET for a LIVE This Week In Space taping to mark the 50th anniversary of the Viking landings on Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":584,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[404,437,477],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-mars","category-solar-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/584"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63222,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63177\/revisions\/63222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}