{"id":19983,"date":"2012-02-18T10:05:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T15:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=19983"},"modified":"2021-02-18T10:06:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T15:06:06","slug":"our-martian-chronicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/our-martian-chronicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Martian Chronicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:none;width:100%;height:450px;\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23e4e1e1&#038;d=201208oct&#038;hideIssuuLogo=true&#038;pageNumber=66&#038;u=portlandmagazine\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19985 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/mars7-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"mars7\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/mars7-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/mars7-620x348.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/mars7-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/mars7.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>While the world watched <em>So You Think You Can Dance<\/em> two months ago, NASA quietly landed &#8220;an SUZ on Mars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NASA&#8217;s rover <em>Curiosity<\/em> reached its 354-million-mile destination four years after getting a boost from Biddeford&#8217;s Fiber Materials, Inc. Specifically, &#8220;the heat shields we created protected <em>Curiosity<\/em> from incinerating,&#8221; says Spencer Tolis, 56, FMI&#8217;s director of operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biddeford&#8217;s Fiber Materials, Inc. flies under the radar in Maine as it makes history for NASA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19986,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19983\/revisions\/19986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}