{"id":556,"date":"2004-01-31T15:25:56","date_gmt":"2004-01-31T20:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/twelve_wheels_on_the_red_plane\/"},"modified":"2004-01-31T15:25:56","modified_gmt":"2004-01-31T20:25:56","slug":"twelve_wheels_on_the_red_plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/twelve_wheels_on_the_red_plane\/","title":{"rendered":"Twelve Wheels on the Red Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opportunity is <a href=\"http:\/\/marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov\/newsroom\/pressreleases\/20040131a.html\">off to the races<\/a> on Mars:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Controllers at NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory received confirmation of the successful drive at 3:01 a.m. Pacific Standard Time via a relay from the Mars Odyssey orbiter and Earth reception by the Deep Space Network. Cheers erupted a minute later when Opportunity sent a picture looking back at the now-empty lander and showing wheel tracks in the martian soil.<br \/>\nFor the first time in history, two mobile robots are exploring the surface of another planet at the same time. Opportunity&#8217;s twin, Spirit, started making wheel tracks halfway around Mars from Meridiani on Jan. 15.<br \/>\n&#8220;We&#8217;re two for two! One dozen wheels on the soil.&#8221; JPL&#8217;s Chris Lewicki, flight director, announced to the control room.<br \/>\nMatt Wallace, mission manager at JPL, told a subsequent news briefing, &#8220;We knew it was going to be a good day. The rover woke up fit and healthy to Bruce Springsteen&#8217;s &#8216;Born to Run,&#8217; and it turned out to be a good choice.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure the rover appreciates the musical inspiration.<br \/>\nYou can follow the action <a href=\"http:\/\/marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov\/home\/index.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/twelve_wheels_on_the_red_plane\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Twelve Wheels on the Red Planet\"><p>Opportunity is off to the races on Mars: Controllers at NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory received confirmation of the successful drive at 3:01 a.m. Pacific Standard Time via a relay from the Mars Odyssey orbiter and Earth reception by the Deep Space Network. Cheers erupted a minute later when Opportunity sent a picture looking back at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}