{"id":473768,"date":"2010-03-26T01:53:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T05:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/opportunity-mars-rover-nasa-aegis\/14628\/"},"modified":"2010-03-26T01:53:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T05:53:25","slug":"nasa-teaches-an-old-dog-new-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/473768","title":{"rendered":"NASA teaches an old dog new tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/pictures\/hero\/mars-rover-aegis.jpg\" alt=\"NASA has given its Opportunity Mars Rover the ability to make its own choices about which ...\"><\/p>\n<p>NASA&#8217;s <em>Opportunity<\/em> is a Mars Rover that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/go\/3923\/\" >just won&#8217;t die<\/a>. In fact, <em>Opportunity<\/em> is just getting better &#8211; and smarter &#8211; with age. Originally slated for a 90-sol (that&#8217;s 90 Mars days) mission when it landed at Meridiani Planum on Mars on January 25, 2004, <em>Opportunity<\/em> is still turning up for work and functioning effectively in its seventh year on the red planet. And unlike some of us who are losing our faculties as we age, <em>Opportunity<\/em> has been given a new capability to make its own choices about whether to conduct additional observations of rocks that it spots on arrival at a new location&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/tag\/autonomous\/\" rel=\"tag\">Autonomous<\/a>,<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/tag\/mars\/\" rel=\"tag\">Mars<\/a>,<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/tag\/nasa\/\" rel=\"tag\">NASA<\/a>,<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/tag\/robot\/\" rel=\"tag\">Robot<\/a>,<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/tag\/rover\/\" rel=\"tag\">Rover<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Related Articles:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/go\/3923\/\">Durable Mars Rovers Sent Into Third Overtime Period<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/nasa-lunar-truck-concept-vehicle\/8916\/\">Extra-terrestrial off-roading: NASA lunar truck concept vehicle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/google-earth-goes-to-mars\/10914\/\">Google Earth goes to Mars<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/maven-nasas-post-phoenix-mars-probe\/10048\/\">MAVEN: NASA&#8217;s post-Phoenix Mars probe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/touchdown-phoenix-spacecraft-lands-on-mars\/9375\/\">Touchdown! 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In fact, Opportunity is just getting better &#8211; and smarter &#8211; with age. Originally slated for a 90-sol (that&#8217;s 90 Mars days) mission when it landed at Meridiani Planum on Mars on January 25, 2004, Opportunity is still turning up for work and functioning effectively [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":639,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473768","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\/639"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}