{"id":848,"date":"2009-06-25T22:28:38","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T06:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/?p=848"},"modified":"2009-06-30T22:50:45","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T06:50:45","slug":"free-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/?p=848","title":{"rendered":"Free Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov\/newsroom\/free-spirit.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/fs_logo_th200.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Free Spirit\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>NASA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov\/home\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mars Exploration Rover<\/a> website has a new <a href=\"http:\/\/marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov\/newsroom\/free-spirit.html\" target=\"_blank\">Free Spirit<\/a> page tracking the efforts to get Spirit &#8220;unstuck&#8221; from its sand trap.<\/p>\n<p>Engineers are mixing diatomaceous Earth and clay in the on-earth rover testbed to attempt to recreate conditions similar to the ones in which Spirit has gotten stuck on Mars so that a sequence of commands can be developed to safety drive the rover out of the mess it&#8217;s gotten itself into. <\/p>\n<p>Spirit used it&#8217;s microscopic imager (which was not designed for anything other than close-up images) to take this fuzzy sequence of pictures under itself that show the wheels dug deeply into the sandy soil, and an ominous pointy rock poking up toward it&#8217;s belly<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov\/gallery\/press\/spirit\/20090603a\/a-1925-mi-mosaic-lvl-az-1_br2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/a-1925-mi-mosaic-lvl-az-1_th418.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"view of Spirit's underbelly\" width=\"418\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Mars Exploration Rover website has a new Free Spirit page tracking the efforts to get Spirit &#8220;unstuck&#8221; from its sand trap. Engineers are mixing diatomaceous Earth and clay in the on-earth rover testbed to attempt to recreate conditions similar to the ones in which Spirit has gotten stuck on Mars so that a sequence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mars","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":881,"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}