{"id":29043,"date":"2012-08-07T06:24:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T12:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/rovers-reviewed.html"},"modified":"2012-08-14T09:29:28","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T15:29:28","slug":"rovers-reviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/rovers-reviewed.html","title":{"rendered":"Rovers reviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comparing the sizes of the different rovers. \u00a0On the left is <i>Spirit\/Opportunity,<\/i> in the middle <i>Sojourner,<\/i> and on the right <i>Curiosity.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/116780922551677170912'>Karyn Traphagen<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wonder how the Mars rovers compare in size? This picture will help!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This photo also clearly shows the tire tread in Curiosity. See those holes? They not only help with travel on the Red Planet&#8230; they are Morse Code for &quot;JPL&quot; (so pretty soon the surface of Mars will have tire treads spelling out &quot;JPL&#8230; JPL&#8230; JPL&quot;)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/113315419190905475766\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"113315419190905475766\">NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/102371865054310418159\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"102371865054310418159\">NASA<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/112661979323694748708\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"112661979323694748708\">mars curiosity-rover<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><a href='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-XEUqGjgRFqk\/UCEHhTkc5UI\/AAAAAAAADrM\/d9tkfVXWDnw\/Dec4_E-3-generation-rovers.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-XEUqGjgRFqk\/UCEHhTkc5UI\/AAAAAAAADrM\/d9tkfVXWDnw\/Dec4_E-3-generation-rovers.jpg' style='max-width:97.5%;clear:both;' border='0' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/isN3vAD1vWc' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comparing the sizes of the different rovers. \u00a0On the left is Spirit\/Opportunity, in the middle Sojourner, and on the right Curiosity. Reshared post from +Karyn Traphagen Wonder how the Mars rovers compare in size? This picture will help!\u00a0 This photo also clearly shows the tire tread in Curiosity. See those holes? They not only help &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/rovers-reviewed.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rovers reviewed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9338,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/25\/blood_planets_a.html","url_meta":{"origin":29043,"position":0},"title":"Blood-planet&#8217;s a Rover","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 25-Jul-06 7:01pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The Mars Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have now lasted some ten times longer than was originally inspected.\u00a0 From the tone of the article, it seems the biggest question is whether...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Science &amp; Nature&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Science &amp; Nature","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/science"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":854,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/09\/shuttles_for_sa.html","url_meta":{"origin":29043,"position":1},"title":"Shuttles for sale","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 9-Nov-01 7:20am","format":false,"excerpt":"Only ridden into orbit once, by a little old space scientist from (JPL) Pasadena NASA is considering privatising the shuttle fleet. 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