{"id":873,"date":"2009-06-30T22:49:33","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T06:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/?p=873"},"modified":"2009-07-01T14:42:18","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T22:42:18","slug":"spirit-digs-up-soft-soil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/?p=873","title":{"rendered":"Spirit Digs Up Soft Soil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the wheels of NASA&#8217;s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit dug into a patch of ground on its way to getting stuck, it exposed the color variations shown in this false color image taken on sol 1892:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/craig\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/363362main_mer20090625.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/craig\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/363362main_mer20090625small.jpg\" width=\"470\" height=\"472\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\n<font size=\"1\"><i>Image Credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/Cornell University<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p>For a sense of scale, the two rocks  near the upper right corner of this view are each about 10 centimeters (4 inches) long and 2 to 3 centimeters (1 inch) wide.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, efforts continue to figure out how to help free Spirit &#8211; today the testbed rover was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/mer\/images\/fs3-20090630.html\" target=\"_blank\">driven into prepared bed of soft soil<\/a>, where the wheels sunk, as planned, just as Spirit&#8217;s have on Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the wheels of NASA&#8217;s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit dug into a patch of ground on its way to getting stuck, it exposed the color variations shown in this false color image taken on sol 1892: Image Credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/Cornell University For a sense of scale, the two rocks near the upper right corner of this [&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-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mars","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}