{"id":9734,"date":"2015-01-23T15:46:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T20:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9734"},"modified":"2015-01-23T15:46:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T20:46:48","slug":"video-opportunity-reaches-a-high-point-on-11th-anniversary-of-mars-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9734","title":{"rendered":"Video: Opportunity reaches a high point on 11th anniversary of Mars landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/mer\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Opportunity rover<\/a>\u00a0reaches a high point and a distance record on the anniversary of its landing on Mars 11 years ago.<\/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\/EADbiFTHirk?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<p>Here is a press release about the milestone:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news.php?feature=4455\" target=\"_d\">Hilltop Panorama Marks Mars Rover&#8217;s 11th Anniversary<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/spaceimages\/details.php?id=pia19109\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9735\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=9735\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/PIA19109_hires_550x136.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"550,136\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"PIA19109_hires_550x136\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/PIA19109_hires_550x136.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9735\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/PIA19109_hires_550x136.jpg\" alt=\"PIA19109_hires_550x136\" width=\"550\" height=\"136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/PIA19109_hires_550x136.jpg 550w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/PIA19109_hires_550x136-300x74.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><em>High Viewpoint for 11-Year-Old Rover Mission on Mars<\/em><br \/>\n<\/a><em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/spaceimages\/images\/largesize\/PIA19109_hires.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Large image<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A panorama from one of the highest elevations that NASA&#8217;s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reached in its 11 years on Mars includes the U.S. flag at the summit.<\/p>\n<p>The view is from the top of &#8220;Cape Tribulation,&#8221; a raised section of the rim of Endeavour Crater. The panorama spans the interior of the 14-mile-wide (22-kilometer-wide) crater and extends to the rim of another crater on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>Opportunity has driven 25.9 miles (41.7 kilometers) since it landed in the Meridiani Planum region of Mars on Jan. 25, 2004 (Universal Time, which was Jan. 24, PST). That is farther than any other off-Earth surface vehicle has driven. The rover&#8217;s work on Mars was initially planned for three months. During that prime mission and for more than a decade of bonus performance in extended missions, Opportunity has returned compelling evidence about wet environments on ancient Mars.<\/p>\n<p>Opportunity has been exploring Endeavour&#8217;s western rim since 2011. From a low segment of the rim that it crossed in mid-2013, called &#8220;Botany Bay,&#8221; it climbed about 440 feet (about 135 meters) in elevation to reach the top of Cape Tribulation. That&#8217;s about 80 percent the height of the Washington Monument.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/spaceimages\/details.php?id=pia19111\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9736\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=9736\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/PIA19111_hires_3D_550x137.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"550,137\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"PIA19111_hires_3D_550x137\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/PIA19111_hires_3D_550x137.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9736\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/PIA19111_hires_3D_550x137.jpg\" alt=\"PIA19111_hires_3D_550x137\" width=\"550\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/PIA19111_hires_3D_550x137.jpg 550w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/PIA19111_hires_3D_550x137-300x75.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/spaceimages\/details.php?id=pia19111\" target=\"_blank\">High viewpoint in 3D<\/a>.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/spaceimages\/images\/largesize\/PIA19111_hires.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Large image<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. flag is printed on the aluminum cable guard of the rover&#8217;s rock abrasion tool, which is used for grinding away weathered rock surfaces to expose fresh interior material for examination. The flag is intended as a memorial to victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. The aluminum was recovered from the site of the Twin Towers in the weeks following the attacks. Workers at Honeybee Robotics in lower Manhattan, less than a mile from World Trade Center, were making the rock abrasion tool for Opportunity and NASA&#8217;s twin Mars Exploration Rover, Spirit, in September 2001.<\/p>\n<p>NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Exploration Rover Project for NASA&#8217;s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. For more information about Opportunity and Spirit, visit:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/rovers\">www.nasa.gov\/rovers<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov\/\">marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can follow the project on Twitter and on Facebook at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MarsRovers\">twitter.com\/MarsRovers<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mars.rovers\">www.facebook.com\/mars.rovers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Opportunity rover\u00a0reaches a high point and a distance record on the anniversary of its landing on Mars 11 years ago. Here is a press release about the milestone: Hilltop Panorama Marks Mars Rover&#8217;s 11th Anniversary High Viewpoint for 11-Year-Old Rover Mission on Mars (Large image) A panorama from one of the highest elevations that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9734\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: Opportunity reaches a high point on 11th anniversary of Mars landing<\/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_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[78,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9734","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-2x0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10224,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10224","url_meta":{"origin":9734,"position":0},"title":"The Opportunity rover on Mars has trekked a Marathon long journey","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 25, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The Opportunity rover reaches yet another milestone: NASA's Opportunity Mars Rover Finishes Marathon, Clocks in at Just Over 11 Years (Click for large image) This illustration depicts some highlights along the route as NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity drove as far as a marathon race during the first 11 years\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mars&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mars","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=78"},"img":{"alt_text":"15-049c[1]","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/15-049c1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12989,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12989","url_meta":{"origin":9734,"position":1},"title":"NASA rover game released to mark Curiosity&#8217;s 4 year anniversary on Mars","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 4, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Check out NASA's free Rover Game: NASA Rover Game Released for Curiosity\u2019s Anniversary As Curiosity marks its fourth anniversary (in Earth years) since landing on Mars, the rover is working on collecting its 17th sample. 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