{"id":3201,"date":"2013-07-05T05:31:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T05:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3201"},"modified":"2013-07-05T05:31:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T05:31:44","slug":"the-latest-on-the-opportunity-mars-rover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3201","title":{"rendered":"The latest on the Opportunity Mars rover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an extended update on what the <a href=\"http:\/\/marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov\/home\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Oppportunity Rover<\/a> has been up to and where it is headed in the coming months:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/explore\/space-topics\/space-missions\/mer-updates\/2013\/06-mer-update-opportunity-continues-sprint-to-solander-point.html\" target=\"_d\">Mars Exploration Rovers Mission Update: Opportunity Continues Sprint to Solander Point &#8211; The Planetary Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/planetary.s3.amazonaws.com\/assets\/images\/mer_updates\/2013-06\/20130704_8-Nobbys-Head---Sol3335_br2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Nobby's Head\" src=\"http:\/\/planetary.s3.amazonaws.com\/assets\/images\/mer_updates\/2013-06\/20130704_8-Nobbys-Head---Sol3335_br2_f537.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>NASA \/ JPL-Caltech \/ Cornell \/ ASU<\/em><\/p>\n<h5><em>Nobby&#8217;s Head<\/em><\/h5>\n<p><em>Opportunity used her Pancam to record this view of the rise in the foreground, Nobby&#8217;s Head on her Sol 3335 (June 11, 2013). The rover drove around the north and west sides of Nobby&#8217;s Head during a multi-week southward drive between two raised segments of the west rim of Endeavour Crater. This view is centered toward the south- southeast, with Opportunity&#8217;s next destination, Solander Point, toward the right edge of the view. Nobby&#8217;s Head is about a third of the way from Cape York, the rim segment where Opportunity worked for most of the past two years, to Solander Point. Opportunity began a trek of approximately 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from part of Cape York to Solander Point in late May 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">**************************<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b\/ref=as_acph_cc_out_310_on?_encoding=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;node=517808&amp;tag=hobbyspace\" target=\"_blank\">Shop Amazon Outlet &#8211; Clearance, Markdowns and Overstock Deals<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=hobbyspace&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an extended update on what the Oppportunity Rover has been up to and where it is headed in the coming months:\u00a0 Mars Exploration Rovers Mission Update: Opportunity Continues Sprint to Solander Point &#8211; The Planetary Society. NASA \/ JPL-Caltech \/ Cornell \/ ASU Nobby&#8217;s Head Opportunity used her Pancam to record this view of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3201\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The latest on the Opportunity Mars rover<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mars","category-space-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-PD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14532,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14532","url_meta":{"origin":3201,"position":0},"title":"The latest on the Mars rovers","author":"TopSpacer","date":"June 24, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Bob Zimmerman has \u00a0posted an interesting update on what's been happening recently with the Opportunity and Curiosity rovers on Mars:\u00a0Mars rover update: June 23, 2017 | Behind The Black. 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