{"id":10044,"date":"2011-08-11T19:00:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T19:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/08\/11\/nasa-mars-rover-arrives-at-new\/"},"modified":"2011-08-11T19:00:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T19:00:46","slug":"nasa-mars-rover-arrives-at-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/11\/nasa-mars-rover-arrives-at-new\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Mars Rover Arrives at New Site on Martian Surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>After a journey of almost three years, NASA&#8217;s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reached the Red Planet&#8217;s Endeavour crater to study rocks never seen before. <\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 9, the golf cart-sized rover relayed its arrival at a location named Spirit Point on the crater&#8217;s rim. Opportunity drove approximately 13 miles (21 kilometers) since climbing out of the Victoria crater. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;NASA is continuing to write remarkable chapters in our nation&#8217;s story of exploration with discoveries on Mars and trips to an array of challenging new destinations,&#8221; NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said. &#8220;Opportunity&#8217;s findings and data from the upcoming Mars Science Laboratory will play a key role in making possible future human missions to Mars and other places where humans have not yet been.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news.cfm?release=2011-248&#038;cid=release_2011-248\">Details here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a journey of almost three years, NASA&#8217;s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reached the Red Planet&#8217;s Endeavour crater to study rocks never seen before. On Aug. 9, the golf cart-sized rover relayed its arrival at a location named Spirit Point on the crater&#8217;s rim. Opportunity drove approximately 13 miles (21 kilometers) since climbing out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/11\/nasa-mars-rover-arrives-at-new\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NASA Mars Rover Arrives at New Site on Martian Surface<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[191],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2C0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}