{"id":50371,"date":"2015-05-06T04:58:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T04:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/06\/a-doff-of-the-hat-to-opportunity.html"},"modified":"2015-05-06T04:58:51","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T04:58:51","slug":"a-doff-of-the-hat-to-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/06\/a-doff-of-the-hat-to-opportunity.html","title":{"rendered":"A Doff of the Hat to "Opportunity""},"content":{"rendered":"

For a probe intended to last 90 Martian Days (and 600m), that it has lasted 4,000<\/i> Martian Days (and 42km) is worth more a bit of applause.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nMars Exploration Rovers Update: Opportunity Logs Sol 4000, Digs Spirit of St. Louis Crater<\/a><\/span>
\nAfter investigating some flat, light and dark toned rocks around Spirit of St. Louis Crater in April, Opportunity chalked up another milestone achievement – the 4000th sol or Martian day of surface operations.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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For a probe intended to last 90 Martian Days (and 600m), that it has lasted 4,000 Martian Days (and 42km) is worth more a bit of applause. Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Opportunity Logs Sol 4000, Digs Spirit of St. Louis Crater After investigating some flat, light and dark toned rocks around Spirit of St. Louis … Continue reading “A Doff of the Hat to "Opportunity"”<\/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-50371","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":4803,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/04\/get_your_spirit.html","url_meta":{"origin":50371,"position":0},"title":"Get your Spirit to Mars …","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 4-Jan-04 7:37am","format":false,"excerpt":"The NASA Spirit rover is on Mars and transmitting back pictures. 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