{"id":5901,"date":"2014-01-03T16:27:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T16:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5901"},"modified":"2014-01-03T16:29:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T16:29:10","slug":"celebrating-10-years-of-mars-roving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5901","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating 10 years of Mars roving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\" target=\"_blank\">Planetary Society<\/a> is &#8220;celebrating 10 years on Mars with the <a href=\"http:\/\/marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov\/home\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mars Exploration Rovers<\/a>&#8221; with a virtual on line party:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/get-involved\/events\/roverparty\/\" target=\"_d\">Happy Birthday Opportunity! &#8211; The Planetary Society<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spirit_rover\" target=\"_blank\">Spirit<\/a> rover landed on January 4, 2004 and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Opportunity_(rover)\" target=\"_blank\">Opportunity<\/a> landed on January 25, 2004. The baseline plan saw each rovers working for 90 days. However, Spirit remained operational until March 4, 2010 and Opportunity is still actively exploring Mars.<\/p>\n<p>You can send a message congratulating the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) team:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/get-involved\/events\/roverparty\/send-a-message.html\" target=\"_d\">Send a Message to the MER Team &#8211; The Planetary Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zyTKMK8Orwo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month the\u00a0Planetary Society is &#8220;celebrating 10 years on Mars with the Mars Exploration Rovers&#8221; with a virtual on line party:\u00a0Happy Birthday Opportunity! &#8211; The Planetary Society The Spirit rover landed on January 4, 2004 and Opportunity landed on January 25, 2004. The baseline plan saw each rovers working for 90 days. However, Spirit remained &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5901\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Celebrating 10 years of Mars roving<\/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":[3,78,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-mars","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1xb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5959,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5959","url_meta":{"origin":5901,"position":0},"title":"Video: Commemoration of 10 years of roving on Mars","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 8, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"This NASA video is of an event to mark the 10 years of Mars exploration by the Spirit and Opportunity rovers: NASA and the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum Media held public events at the museum to commemorate 10 years of roving across Mars. 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