{"id":235017,"date":"2010-01-27T02:53:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T07:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/?p=6546"},"modified":"2010-01-27T02:53:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T07:53:46","slug":"mars-exploration-rover-spirit-now-a-stationary-science-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/235017","title":{"rendered":"Mars Exploration Rover Spirit now a stationary science lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='snap_preview'><\/p>\n<p>Both the Spirit and \u00a0Opportunity have provided an amazing amount of science from Mars. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/blog\/deltav\/24719\/?nlid=2696\" >Even though Spirit is no longer mobile<\/a>, it still has missions to accomplish.<\/p>\n<p>From the link:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>NASA has spent several months\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/blog\/deltav\/23897\/\" >trying to free<\/a> the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/mer\/index.html\" >Mars Exploration Rover<\/a> <em>Spirit <\/em>from a sand trap. Now, engineers are calling it quits. After six years of exploration, and significant scientific discoveries, the rover will remain a stationary science platform.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Spirit is not dead; it has just entered another phase of its long life,&#8221; said Doug McCuistion, director of the Mars Exploration Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., in a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news.cfm?release=2010-030&amp;icid=%27MostViewHome%27\" >press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming it survives the upcoming Martian winter, the rover will continue its scientific endeavors for several months to years.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/blog\/deltav\/files\/36666\/mer20100126-d-browse.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This view from the front hazard-avoidance camera on<br \/>\nNASA&#8217;s Mars Exploration Rover\u00a0<em>Spirit <\/em>shows the position<br \/>\nof its front wheels following a backward drive on Jan. 23, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6546\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6546\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6546\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6546\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6546\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6546\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6546\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6546\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6546\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6546\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2464417&#038;post=6546&#038;subd=davidkirkpatrick&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both the Spirit and \u00a0Opportunity have provided an amazing amount of science from Mars. Even though Spirit is no longer mobile, it still has missions to accomplish. From the link: NASA has spent several months\u00a0trying to free the\u00a0Mars Exploration Rover Spirit from a sand trap. Now, engineers are calling it quits. After six years of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4050,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4050"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}