{"id":27324,"date":"2010-08-04T17:48:14","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T17:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/martian-dust-devil\/"},"modified":"2010-08-04T17:48:14","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T17:48:14","slug":"martian-dust-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/martian-dust-devil.php","title":{"rendered":"Martian Dust Devil"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/0b2e1_oppy080310.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/0b2e1_oppy080310.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>Opportunity's first dust devil.  NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/Cornell University\/Texas A&amp;M<\/p><\/div><p>The Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity captured this dust devil on camera.&nbsp; This is the first one for Opportunity in the six and a half years on the planet.&nbsp; Spirit has seen dozens of them.&nbsp; I thought sure Oppy had seen one but no, not according to the <a title=\"Read the press release\" href=\"http:\/\/marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov\/newsroom\/pressreleases\/20100728a.html\" target=\"_blank\">press release.<\/a><\/p><p>This particular dust devil was seen on July 15th while the rover was taking pictures with its panoramic camera to do a bit of drive planning.&nbsp; The dustier conditions near Gusev Crater where Spirit has been working are likely more favorable to create the phenomenon.<\/p><p>Just a day before the dust devil was spotted, conditions near Opportunity were windy enough to blow some dust off the solar panels and increased the power output by 10 percent.&nbsp; Opportunity took a series of pictures on Sol 2220 (in April) which were put together to give a 360 degree view of the area, looks pretty desolate &ndash; <a title=\"This is about 300 K\" href=\"http:\/\/marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov\/gallery\/press\/opportunity\/20100625a\/site_BAG_navcam_CYL_L_br2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">click here to view it<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opportunity's first dust devil. NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/Cornell University\/Texas A&amp;MThe Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity captured this dust devil on camera.&nbsp; This is the first one for Opportunity in the six and a half years on the planet.&nbsp; Spirit has seen dozens of them.&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/martian-dust-devil.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}