{"id":5769,"date":"2013-07-07T11:49:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T18:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2013\/07\/07\/mars-rover-opportunity-10-year-anniversary\/"},"modified":"2013-07-07T11:49:45","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T18:49:45","slug":"mars-rover-opportunity-10-year-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2013\/07\/07\/mars-rover-opportunity-10-year-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars Rover Opportunity 10 Year Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/opportunity.jpg' title='opportunity.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/opportunity.jpg' alt='opportunity.jpg' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today marks the tenth anniversary of the deployment of the Mars Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. Spirit has not been heard from for several years, but Opportunity keeps on chugin&#8217; along. This is quite an achievement for JPL, NASA and the subcontractors that put these remarkable spacecraft together. Several years ago, Damsel and I visited JPL and took the tour that included the ground facilities for the rover program. It was quite impressive.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/science-news\/science-at-nasa\/2013\/01jul_oppy\/\">Dr. Tony Phillips&#8217; article about Opportunity<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Opportunity&#8217;s Improbable Anniversary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>July 1, 2013:  When NASA&#8217;s Mars rover Opportunity blasted off from Cape Canaveral in 2003, many onlookers expected a relatively short mission.  Landing on Mars is risky business. The Red Planet has a long history of destroying spacecraft that attempt to visit it.  Even if Opportunity did land safely, it was only designed for a 3-month mission on the hostile Martian surface.<\/p>\n<p>Few, if any, imagined that Opportunity would still be roving the red sands of Mars&#8211;and still making discoveries&#8211;<em>ten years later<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>On July 7, 2013, Opportunity celebrates the 10th anniversary of its launch and more than 9 years on Mars. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the tenth anniversary of the deployment of the Mars Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. Spirit has not been heard from for several years, but Opportunity&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerospace","category-rocket-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}