{"id":28994,"date":"2010-10-11T17:24:02","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T17:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/oilean-ruaidh\/"},"modified":"2010-10-11T17:24:02","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T17:24:02","slug":"oilean-ruaidh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/oilean-ruaidh.php","title":{"rendered":"Oile\u00e1n Ruaidh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/tomsastroblog.com\/images\/oppy100810B.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/deff3_oppy100810A.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"501\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>A meteorite the Rover Opportunity found.  Click for a false color version.  Credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/Cornell University <\/p><\/div><p><\/p><p>The Mars Rover Opportunity spotted what was thought to be a meteorite on the Martian surface a few weeks ago on September 16, 2010.&nbsp; Have wheels will travel was the motto and pretty soon as you can see, the little rover bumped right up to it and gave us this nice close up look.<\/p><p>Using the microscopic imager and the X-ray spectrometer the mission team determined this is an nickel-iron meteorite.&nbsp; The mission team named the meteorite <a title=\"About\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oile%C3%A1n_Ruaidh\" target=\"_blank\">Oile&aacute;n Ruaidh<\/a> for an island off the northwest coast of Ireland (YAY Ireland!!&nbsp; I love Ireland, got kin there and it&rsquo;s a great place to visit).&nbsp; According to NASA it is pronounced ay-lan ruah, my Gaelic is next to nothing so I&rsquo;ll take their word for it.<\/p><p>So now the rover has been there and done that as they say and is heading off towards Endeavour Crater.<\/p><p>It&rsquo;s hard to keep a good rover down.&nbsp;  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/deff3_icon_wink.gif\" alt=\";-)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"> <\/p><p>Before anybody comments that such a dense meteorite should have left a rather big hole. . .&nbsp; I&rsquo;m there too.&nbsp; Speculate away.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A meteorite the Rover Opportunity found. Click for a false color version. Credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/Cornell University The Mars Rover Opportunity spotted what was thought to be a meteorite on the Martian surface a few weeks ago on September 16, 2010.&nbsp; Have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/oilean-ruaidh.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-28994","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\/28994"}],"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=28994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}