{"id":33506,"date":"2011-04-03T15:43:31","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T15:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/mars-rovers\/"},"modified":"2011-04-03T15:43:31","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T15:43:31","slug":"mars-rovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/mars-rovers.php","title":{"rendered":"Mars Rovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/tomsastroblog.com\/images\/oppy033111.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d623b_oppy033111sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"475\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>A HiRISE image of Santa Maria crater and the rover Opportunity.  Click for larger (~247 k).  Image Credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/Univ. of Arizona<\/p><\/div><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>The crater you see in the image is Santa Maria on Mars.&nbsp; The image was taken by the High Resolution Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on March 9, 2011.<\/p><p>If you look at about 4:00 you will see the arrow pointing to the Mars Rover Opportunity, click the image if you are having trouble seeing it.<\/p><p>This image has been cropped, to see the full versions and caption &ndash;<a title=\"Check out the Oppy picture at the MER site.\" href=\"http:\/\/marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov\/newsroom\/pressreleases\/20110309a.html\" target=\"_blank\"> click here<\/a>.<\/p><p>The caption title is Opportunity is Still Smiling, the same cannot be said for the Rover Spirit.&nbsp; It doesn&rsquo;t look good folks, Spirit has been quiet for over a year and not only that, most heaters were turned off over the Martian winter subjecting the electronics to the most extreme cold thus far in the mission.<\/p><p>In the past few weeks Spirit went through the period where its location received the maximum amount of sunlight, it was hoped there might be some communication.&nbsp; Nothing.&nbsp; The peak sunlight occurred on March 10 and on March 15 mission managers sent commands for Spirit to use UHF relays and a back up transmitter to communicate with the orbiting spacecraft.<\/p><p>&ldquo;The commands we are sending starting this week should work in a multiple-fault scenario where Spirit&rsquo;s main transmitter is no longer working and the mission clock has lost track of time or drifted significantly,&rdquo; said JPL&rsquo;s John Callas, project manager for Spirit and Opportunity.<\/p><p>If nothing is heard in the next month or few months the mission will switch to a single rover mission.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A HiRISE image of Santa Maria crater and the rover Opportunity. Click for larger (~247 k). Image Credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/Univ. of Arizona&nbsp;The crater you see in the image is Santa Maria on Mars.&nbsp; The image was taken by the High Resolution &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/mars-rovers.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-33506","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\/33506"}],"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=33506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}